Universities: "Islamogauchism? A reality for 20 years ”

Olivier Vial is Director of CERU, the university ideas lab and President of UNI and the Observatory of Deconstruction.

Do we still need an investigation to prove the rise of Islamogauchism at the university, as requested by the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal?

The violence and the number of protests that followed this announcement are not enough to demonstrate the extent of the phenomenon.

If the latter were not so important and installed, nobody would have to fear such a step?

However, the outrageous indignation of many academics in post-colonial studies - some of whom claimed and yet for months had the #islamogauchist mention in their twitter biography - reveal that many people fear it.

As for the Conference of University Presidents, to continue to hide the problem under the carpet and avoid being interested in what is happening on its campuses, it is investigating the usual demonization trial denouncing, in a press release , the use of a term that should be "

left if not to the hosts of

Cnews

, more broadly to the extreme right which popularized it."

"

But which far right is the CPU talking about?

That of Manuel Valls who was one of the most regular critics of Islamogauchism?

That of Claude Askolovitch of the Nouvel Observateur who denounced the "

leftists of Allah

"?

That of the activist Caroline Fourest, who was the first to forcefully reveal the connivance of a part of the left with Tariq Ramadan?

To accept everything for fear of stigmatizing is not already sinking into one of the faults of Islamogauchism?

So as not to disturb the university authorities and especially not to appear to be far right in his eyes, are we obliged to accept everything?

Accept that the University of Paris 1 will abolish in 2019 a training course on "

prevention of radicalization

" led by Mohamed Sifaoui following pressure from unions and academics?

Accept that in Lille, the performances of the play written by Charb, the director of Charlie Hebdo assassinated in the 2015 attacks, be canceled on the grounds that they are Islamophobic?

Accept that students of Sciences Po organize since 2016, the "

Hijab day

" to encourage to wear the Hijab and thus trivialize its use?

Accept that Lyon 2 University endorse a conference entitled “

Fighting against Islamophobia

” organized in partnership with the Collectif Contre l'Islamophobie en France?

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Accept that a professor of sociology be pushed to the door of his research laboratory in Limoges for having denounced the presence of Houria Boutledja, the sulphurous founder of the party of the natives of the Republic in a training offered by his establishment?

To accept everything for fear of stigmatizing is not already sinking into one of the faults of Islamogauchism?

Le Monde journalist Jean Birenbaum, in an article from November 2020, shows how by Third World reflex, part of the left has developed a form of indulgence vis-à-vis Islamism.

Some, cynically, saw this as an opportunity, a possible strategy.

From the mid-1990s, a part of the Trotskyist far left very present in the universities will thus begin to theorize the need to get closer to the Islamist movements.

Disappointed by the popular classes, whom she accuses of becoming more and more conservative and of being, in fact, incapable of carrying the revolution, she will turn to minorities and perceive Islamism as an effective weapon and ally. to fight against "

Western imperialism

".

"Islamo-leftism" has forged "university" concepts likely to fill the militant arsenal of those who want to overthrow our model of society.

In the early 2000s, the campuses will thus become the place where this “

union

” will flourish.

The anti-globalization left, close to the NPA, which then holds the upper hand will fall in love with Tariq Ramadan and his followers in the universities.

In 2002, Muslim students from France, an association close to the Muslim Brotherhood, made a noticeable breakthrough during the CROUS elections (results denounced at the time by UNEF before the union became the backbone of this movement).

In December of the same year, under pressure from associations and unions, the board of directors of the University of Paris 6 called for a boycott of Israeli universities and academics.

The alliance is sealed.

The Second Golf War, in 2003, offered them the opportunity to learn to demonstrate side by side.

In 2004, the security services of several far-left student organizations will even be mobilized to supervise the pro-veil demonstration, organized by the very radical Mohamed Latrèche of the Muslim Party of France.

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This alliance between Islamist and “

leftists

” did not develop only in the militant sphere, it also flourished ideologically, forging “university” concepts likely to fill the militant arsenal of those who want to overthrow our model of society.

Thus from 2003, the development of the concept of Islamophobia was made possible by the meeting of academics, such as Vincent Geisser, researcher at the CNRS and militant associations.

These latter will then multiply meetings and conferences with the aim of imposing the term in the public debate.

Today, the development of decolonial studies pursues the same objective: to offer a scientific veneer to the political struggles of the moment.

Today, the development of decolonial studies pursues the same objective: to offer a scientific veneer to the political struggles of the moment.

Thus, the concepts of "

systemic racism

", "

white privilege

", "

blantriarchy

" are soon "

produced

" by the university taken over by activists to denounce the State, the Police, the Patriarchate and fuel the resentment of minorities. against our societies in the hope of inciting them to rise up.

Old Trotskyite hope.

It has been more than twenty years since Islamogauchism made its nest in our universities.

He thrives in the shadow of the petty cowardice of the university authorities who have often chosen to come to terms with him and to practice what looks like "

reasonable accommodation

".

In 2003, while incidents and community claims were on the increase, the vice-president of the University of Paris 13, during a conference organized by the CPU, proposed, for example, to set up secularism commissions. to negotiate the application of this principle in the establishments.

“

9 Villetaneuse students refused to participate in compulsory sports education because they wore headscarves.

We have found a compromise: they agree to follow the sports regulations which prohibit the wearing of the veil for running and gymnastics, as long as no man is present.

We have therefore formed an all-female group,

”she says.

So do we really need a survey to measure the influence of Islamogauchism in our universities?

Perhaps!

But entrusting it to the CNRS and to the members of the

Athena

alliance

who have never shown great lucidity in the matter, it looks above all like a new way to bury the subject!