"
Islamo-leftism
" is an "
unmistakable social fact
" that must be "
looked in the face
", declared Saturday the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, while his colleague Frédérique Vidal was very criticized for have asked the CNRS for an investigation on the subject within the university.
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“
It would be absurd not to want to study a social fact.
If it's an illusion, you have to study the illusion and see if it is.
For my part I see it as an unmistakable social fact
", affirmed Mr. Blanquer on BFMTV, estimating that"
some still try to minimize this political project
".
"
It is a phenomenon that must be looked in the face
", underlined the Minister of Education, citing the examples of "single
-sex
"
workshops
organized by the Sud Education 93 union in 2017 and the interruption of a representation of the ancient poet Aeschylus, interrupted "
by activists
" in 2019 at the Sorbonne.
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These comments come at a time when the CNRS recalled this week that the term "Islamo-leftism" does not correspond "
to any scientific reality
", while the Minister of Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal had requested "
a report of all research
”which takes place in France, in order to distinguish between what is academic research and what is activism.
"
It is a word which does not necessarily have a scientific content
" but "
describes a political reality
", judged Jean-Michel Blanquer, adding that it was "
a very global term
".
"
I'm happy after political scientists analyze this or find other words to describe the phenomenon,
" he said.
According to Jean-Michel Blanquer,
Islamist
"
extremists
" "
sometimes find accomplices in certain extreme left circles
".
"
When you have
Jean-Luc Mélenchon who participates in a CCIF demonstration
, where there were radical Islamists, [he] falls into leftist Islam without any doubt,
" he said.