Renée Fregosi is a philosopher and political scientist. She published
How I did not make a career at the PS.
Social democracy prevented
(Balland, 2021).
The liberticidal, misogynistic and anti-Semitic positions of Islamo-leftism punctuate the news.
That the authoritarian left, yesterday Bolshevik, today woke, decolonial, anti-Zionist, has a tie with political Islam is historical and rather consistent.
Mutual instrumentalization to maneuver the same sociological base and anti-democratic ideological convergence, shared pro-Palestinism and similar fascination with “revolutionary” violence.
The Islamo-leftist, defined by Pierre-André Taguieff
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thus assimilates Islamism to Islam, Islam to the immigrant populations from the Maghreb and Africa, and immigrants to the new "damned of the earth".
And in this, the extreme left absolutely enters the game of the Islamists themselves in struggle against Western societies.
Rediscovering the logic of the minority "vanguards" who claim to achieve a "junction with the people" by investing in mass nationalist movements such as the Peronist movement in Argentina, this left willingly considers Islamist movements as a Trojan horse for its own anti-capitalist strategy.
Islamism is for them an "objective" ally against the West, derided in a self-hatred reminiscent of that which yesterday animated the bourgeois Marxists redeeming their fault of
We also know the clientelist Islamo-indulgence - from the right as well as from the left - which advocates "no waves" and "nothing to do with Islam".
Céline Pina described it well.
Islamo-negligence is less denounced, which minimizes the dangerousness of the Islamist: Islamism would be a secondary phenomenon, even negligible in view of the threat from the far right.
A variation of this type of position consists in the invention of “the identity pincer”.
Sending them back to back, accused together of mutually supporting each other, the two threats are presented as antagonistic and symmetrical, and the danger of the extreme right is inevitably a counterpart, in this discourse, to the Islamist attacks.
Yet it is Islamism that kills, persecutes and terrorizes nonconforming Muslims, Jews, Christians, Yazidis, apostates, atheists, freethinkers and all vectors of freedom of expression.
Not so much the neo-Nazi groups when there are any left.
The constant threat to the existence of the State of Israel and to the lives of Israelis is Muslim extremism with its rockets, its knife assassins and the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Not so much the Nazi allies of yesterday's Arab nationalism.
The enemy in the front line against secularism today is Islamism.
Minus the extreme right, which has even made it its new mascot.
"Islamo-Nazism" is a historical fact, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem proposing to Hitler the formation of an SS regiment of Muslims, to the former Nazis for certain converts to Islam and warmly welcomed after 1947 by the Arab regimes in Middle East to fight against the young State of Israel.
The Islamist-extreme right alliance continues today in Latin America, for example, where Hezbollah is as much linked to former supporters of the dictatorships of the 1970s as it is to the Castro regimes of Cuba or Venezuela.
It is also the same anti-Semitism that animates the nostalgic Holocaust deniers of Nazism whom Dieudonné willingly invited to his meetings-shows denouncing the famous "Islamophobia".
Through the individuals massacred by the Islamists, it is indeed free thought and the free disposal of one's body that are targeted.
And beyond the West, its humanism and its universalism, it is the emancipatory culture in general that is their target.
Renee Fregosi
Through the individuals massacred by the Islamists, it is indeed free thought and the free disposal of one's body that are targeted.
And beyond the West, its humanism and its universalism, it is the emancipatory culture in general that is their target.
The murderous aggression against Salman Rushdie, if it responds belatedly to the first Islamist call to kill the "impious" outside the "lands of Islam", is indeed today part of a long litany of attacks and assassinations perpetrated for this purpose throughout the world in the name of "Allah the Most Great".
From the extermination of the Algerian intelligentsia by the GIA to the children murdered in their schools in Pakistan, from the Buddhas of Bâmiyân to the precious manuscripts of the mosque of Timbuktu, from the Pardo museum in Tunis to the monuments of Palmyra, it is the awakening of consciences to free examination and free choice which is condemned like all the pleasures of the senses, images, music, dance, even the beauty of the landscapes, and those of sex in all its emotions of course.
Because, it is often recalled, Muslims are the "first" victims of Islamism, it is true from the point of view of numbers and chronologically.
The first stage of the globalized Islamist offensive having consisted in the re-Islamization of the so-called Muslim world, originally advocated by Hassan al-Banna in the 1920s. Against the incomplete modernity imposed by Western colonialism, then Kemalism and Arab nationalisms , the neo-Islamists inspired in particular by Sayyid Qutb, the Ayatollah Khomeini or Youssef al-Qaradawi are reactivating a rigorous traditional Islam and fueling a mystique of conquest.
Specialists like Gilles Kepel or Michaël Prazan have perfectly explained their totalitarian logic.
The next step, and we are clearly undergoing it in Europe and in France especially since the beginning of the 2000s, consists in the Islamization of the West.
Renee Fregosi
The next step, and we are clearly undergoing it in Europe and in France especially since the beginning of the 2000s, consists in the Islamization of the West.
It is not directly a question of converting all populations to Islam but of working on mentalities in general and decision-makers, in order to have the main fundamentalist principles accepted: in particular, the recognition as crimes of blasphemy and apostasy, the separation of the sexes, communitarianism inducing distinct rights between individuals, the veiling of women's bodies, the prohibition of mixed marriages without prior conversion to Islam, the systematic adoption of food taboos in collective canteens.
For this, the Islamists use both the manipulation of segments of the immigrant population, the action of their useful idiots, persuasion through institutional infiltration, and the strategy of tension through violence.
There is thus a regular succession of assassinations and attacks against Jewish people considered by the Islamists as the first enemy of Muslims, journalists, teachers, people free to enjoy the pleasures of life in the streets and cafes, and the multiplication of damage to places of worship and Jewish and Christian cemeteries.
And we also see every day the "gentle" dissemination all over the place of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Within sports associations, attempts are made to impose the hijab on playgrounds and in women's athletics, within humanitarian associations promoting “living together”, fundamentalist Islamic practices are trivialized.
Renee Fregosi
Within the left and political ecology, we militate in favor of the burkini in the municipalities or in favor of the veil at the university, within sports associations, we try to impose the hijab on the playgrounds and in women's athletics, within humanitarian associations promoting "living together", the practices of fundamentalist Islam are trivialized, and right down to the heart of associations for the defense of secularism, secular principles are defeated at the name of an "open" secularism based on "religious freedom" and no longer on freedom of conscience.
The school of course, but also the other public services and the state apparatus are part of the stakes of Islamist entryism.
We thus see him at work at the Fondation de l'islam de France which, under cover of secularism, trivializes the expansion of Islam in France.
How, faced with these realities, do people on the left, defenders of democracy, secularism, public and individual freedoms, not consider that Islamism is the most immediate threat?
Of course, we must salute the anti-Islamist commitment of “left-wing intellectuals” like Jacques Julliard or Georges Bensoussan as well as some very minority figures like Manuel Valls now offside.
But despite whole sections of the former socialist electorate disillusioned, taking refuge in abstention or even going over to the RN, the leaders of this zombie left as Laurent Bouvet called it, but also many secular activists who have not updated their analyses, persist in not engaging resolutely against the Islamist offensive.
"The new Socialist Party" breaking in 1971 with the line of the defunct SFIO, had never been very willing to defend secular principles.
And he showed himself particularly reluctant to fight against the new enemies of secularism that are the Islamists when they clearly began to manifest themselves in France from 1989. Finally, the calamitous PS candidate for the 2017 presidential election was a perfect representative of Islamo-leftism.
But it is even more the clientelist Islamo-indulgence and above all the guilt-inducing Islamo-negligence of the various sectors of the democratic left, which weakens the fight against Islamism.
Against this totalitarianism of the third type, the secular and democratic left must come out of its reserve and no longer fear being assimilated to certain anti-Islamists who would not be frequentable because of their political affiliation or their supposed anti-Arab tropism.
The Islamist offensive must finally be recognized for what it is, namely a movement of conquest that seriously threatens our already weakened democracies and the difficult process of emancipation of all individuals regardless of their sex or their religious identification or philosophical.
Faced with the Islamist enemy, mobilization must be general.
