Renée Fregosi is a philosopher and political scientist. His latest work is
French still an effort ... to remain secular!
(Ed. L'Harmattan, 2019)
After each Islamist terrorist attack, the same words intersect: on the one hand, we procrastinate in order to recognize the Islamist nature of the attack as late as possible, then we try above all not to “stigmatize” Muslims and immigrants, on the other hand, we cry out to finally make it clear that Islamist violence is rooted in an ideology that is widely diffused in Muslim and immigrant circles, and even well beyond.
Unfortunately those who consider it a priority not to fall into "Islamophobia", racism and xenophobia are largely in the media and the political world, while those who publicly call for the urgency of fighting against Islamist totalitarianism remains in the minority.
This antagonism between culpable indulgence in Islamism and resolute opposition to the offensive of political Islam in all its forms (violent and insidious) resembles in many ways the strategic divergence that existed in the During the Cold War, there are on one side the partisans of a benevolent neutrality going as far as unconditional support for communism and on the other side the supporters of a militant anti-Bolshevism.
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In the first camp which was largely in the majority in France at the time of the objective alliance between Gaullism and the PCF, we found in addition to these two main political players, a whole politico-intellectual nebula claiming to be of the social left, of anti-Americanism. or even anti-fascism.
In the other camp, there were anti-Communists of the right and of the extreme and at the same time, of the left and of the extreme left.
Among the various anticommunists there was no connivance or coordination, but the Communists and their useful idiots obviously accused the Socialists in particular of playing into the hands of the extreme right, even of being its accomplices.
Unfortunately those who consider that it is a priority not to fall into "Islamophobia", racism and xenophobia are largely in the majority in the media and the political world.
However, like Islamism today, Bolshevik totalitarianism fought against Western democracy, its pluralism of ideas and the emancipation of the individuals it promotes.
But as today, the anti-totalitarians of the left hesitated or even were reluctant to defend the West and its values.
Because the fighters claiming to be from the West were located on the extreme right, and the predecessor of the “New Order” movement (which will participate in the creation of the National Front) was called “West”.
But the West that this extreme right claimed to defend was in fact a truncated and partially distorted conception of Western history and its political and intellectual development.
This univocal vision ignores what makes the West so rich, namely its ambivalence, its diversity of ideas and its invention of a critical mind.
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If the West has known wars, atrocities and genocidal exterminations like everywhere else in the world and through the ages, philosophy and democracy were invented in ancient Greece, the Enlightenment was born in Europe, and shone there much more. than in other parts of the world.
It is also in the West that the nation-states have implemented the most advanced social policies and the most accomplished public and individual freedoms.
If [...] Abou Moussab al-Souri recommended [...] to attack [...] France particularly, it is because he considered this region as "the soft underbelly of the West "
Also, the French Republicans not only do not have to be ashamed of the history of their country, but must raise their heads and defend loud and clear the three pillars (political, cultural and economic) of democracy, or as Jaurès said: the political republic, the secular republic and the social republic.
This revaluation of France, of Europe, of the West, is essential in the ideological struggle that must be waged against Islamism.
If the Syrian theorist of decentralized jihad, Abou Moussab al-Souri, recommended in 2014 to attack Europe first and especially France, it is because he considered this region as "the soft underbelly of the West ”.
Because when the enemy is no longer assured of his rights, has lost the pride of what he is and the validity of the principles which are his, the war will be won sooner or later.
War is not waged only by arms but also, and just as important, by ideas and the will to win.
The "decentralized" terrorist attacks, "low cost" as they say, that is to say perpetrated by individuals logistically isolated but strongly imbued with ideology as revenge as religious, are then as much if not more destabilizing than armed combat against military forces in the Sahel, Afghanistan or the Middle East.
On the one hand, because these terrorist actions are very largely unpredictable, most often carried out by young people who are not "S-files".
On the other hand, the perpetrators of these small scale attacks, carried out with weapons often “by destination”, are more easily attributable to “imbalances”.
But finally, above all, because these individual attacks divide populations, politicians and analysts, better than the hyper-lethal and / or symbolic attacks which revolt large layers of society.
To fight against this "separatism" there, the supporters of unarmed appeasement against the Islamist offensive must give way to the supporters of resistance and moral rearmament.
To fight against this "separatism" there, the supporters of unarmed appeasement against the Islamist offensive must give way to the supporters of resistance and moral rearmament.
Mobilization in favor of freedom of expression, but also secularism, free thought and the emancipation of individuals of all sexes and all conditions, must continue to grow.
Because by that terrorism, it is against the deadly ideology of the Islamists and their accomplices that we must fight relentlessly.
