The controversial notion of "Islamo-leftism" is evidenced by a "convergence of ideas" between part of the far left and political Islam, said LREM leader Stanislas Guerini on Sunday.
“It's a political fact.
(...) I don't know if this has a scientific reality, but undoubtedly, we see today that part of the left, more precisely of the extreme left, mixes its voice and converges its ideas with political Islam
”, declared on Europe-Les Echos-CNEWS the general delegate of the presidential party.
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“When we see a few days ago, at the platform of the National Assembly, [the leader of the rebellious] Jean-Luc Mélenchon proudly claiming his participation in a demonstration against Islamophobia, who said that there was in our republic of liberticidal laws ”
, he continued,
“ it is indisputable proof that there is a political convergence of these two theses, and that they are trying to make their bed in a secessionist vision of French society.
We must denounce it and fight it ”.
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The Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, is at the origin of a controversy after asking the CNRS for a study on
"Islamo-leftism"
at the university.
Some 600 academics on Saturday demanded the resignation of the minister, accusing her in a column published by the newspaper Le Monde of "raising the threat of intellectual repression".
"
Let us be careful that our political debate does not fall too quickly on one side or the other,"
urged Mr. Guerini on Sunday, after according to him "decades" spent
"turning a blind eye to the world of education, when there were attacks on secularism and the freedom to teach.
"