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The abaya, umpteenth symbol of LFI's communitarian shift

2023-06-08T19:02:56.453Z

Highlights: Mélenchon: "Everyyear, we try to invent a new controversy to attack Muslims" Insoumise deputy Manuel Bompard: "Muslims in this country are tired of serving as media cannon fodder" "You will die the open mouth of your rancid racism," said LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Thomas Portes. An attack on those who take out "the card of the Muslim, of the foreigner", to distract from the social struggle.


ANALYSIS - There was a time when Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated militant religious attire, wherever it comes from. This time has not been for several years now.


"Everyyear, we try to invent a new controversy to attack Muslims." On BFM, Thursday, the deputy Insoumise Manuel Bompard denounced the controversy over the abaya, this religious garment worn by some Muslim women, causing tension in recent weeks in at least several high schools in the south of the France. He repeated the mantra of their political party: the alleged victim with minority identity claims is right on principle. Deputy of Marseille in the former constituency of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the number two of the Insoumise pointed to "a disproportionate media echo". And insisted: "Muslims in this country are tired of serving as media cannon fodder." "You will die the open mouth of your rancid racism," said the day before the LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Thomas Portes. An attack on those who take out "the card of the Muslim, of the foreigner", to distract from the social struggle. " Le Parisien makes its front page on...

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