Since his arrival at the head of the Socialist Party (PS) in 2018, Olivier Faure has tried to hold the crest line: to remain firm in the face of Islamism, while retaining a moderate expression.
To the point of indignation, Thursday, the former socialist prime minister Manuel Valls, annoyed to see the boss of the PS refute the term "Islamo-leftism" - a controversial expression which establishes a convergence between Islamists and the extreme left.
A standoff that comes a few days after the Minister of Higher Education caused an uproar, asking the CNRS to investigate this matter in universities, to distinguish between what is academic research and what is activism .
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Condemning an
“extremely serious accusation”
of Frédérique Vidal, Olivier Faure denounced Wednesday, on CNews,
“a term invented by the extreme right”
.
"I do not know what" Islamo-leftism "means (...), which suggests that there is a part of the academic world which could have a link with radical Islamism"
, indicated the first secretary of the PS, echoing the
“caricatural representations”
and
“commercial coffee quibbles”
denounced Tuesday by the Conference of University Presidents.
"Irreconcilable" lefts
In the form of a focus, Manuel Valls's replica turned out to be dry.
"It's quite simple,"
wrote the former prime minister Thursday on Twitter.
"Islamo-leftism",
"it is the direct or indirect alliance between a part of the left (political, union, media, intellectual ...) and political Islam or Islamism"
.
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For a long time champion of a security left, before approaching the majority of La République en Marche (LREM) and then engaging in political life in Catalonia (Spain), the former socialist was one of the first political leaders to use this expression, in 2016. The former prime minister at the time accused part of the radical left of maintaining links with the controversial Islamologist Tariq Ramadan.
The theorist of the two
"irreconcilable"
left - a "republican" left which he opposes to a "communitarian" left, accused of turning its back on secularism - has since made it one of his favorite angles of attack against Insubordinate France (LFI).
But he had so far spared the leaders of his former political party from public lessons.
