Saïd Djabelkhir, an enlightened Islamologist sentenced to prison

“

I feel like I'm in the 12th century.

I have the impression of reliving scenes from Youssef Chahine's film on Averroès, not of attending a trial

. ”

The joke of Aouicha Bakhti, one of the lawyers of Saïd Djabelkhir, the Algerian Islamologist prosecuted for "attacking Islam" and sentenced to three years in prison, sums up quite well the atmosphere during the trial which was held on April 1 at the Algiers court.

Because between the decrepit walls of the Algerian court, the eternal trial of thought is replayed as Averroès, the enlightened philosopher of the 12th century, had suffered in the face of the fundamentalist inquisition in Andalusia.

It all started with the complaint of an Islamist, digital security specialist and university teacher, Bachir Bouiadjra Abderrezak, supported by lawyers who will encode the complaint as a civil party - a fact denounced by the defense of Djabelkhir - against the Islamologist accused of having, among other things, declared that "

the sacrifice of the sheep existed before the advent of Islam

", of having criticized

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