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The assailant of Annecy calls himself "Christian": Decivilization or brutalization?

2023-06-09T14:02:11.011Z

Highlights: The assailant of Annecy calls himself "Christian". Information that beats the thesis of decivilization or the clash of civilizations, analyzes Frédéric Saint Clair. The political scientist invites us instead to look at the concept of brutalization of societies developed by Islam, he says. He is an analyst in strategy and political communication. Former chargé de mission to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, he published La Droite face à l'Islam (Salvator, 2018).


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - The assailant of Annecy calls himself "Christian". Information that beats the thesis of decivilization or the clash of civilizations, analyzes Frédéric Saint Clair. The political scientist invites us instead to look at the concept of brutalization of societies developed by...


Frédéric Saint Clair is an analyst in strategy and political communication. Former chargé de mission to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, he published La Droite face à l'Islam (Salvator, 2018).

A massacre of young children, probably the worst horror we can conceive, took place in a park in the city of Annecy this Thursday, June 08, 2023. The perpetrator of the attack? A Syrian refugee. Islamist? No, this time, the murderer claims to be a Christian! Let's put it bluntly: It is Islam that was expected at the turn of the Annecy knife attack, not Christianity. As of tonight, on television sets, it is possible that some observers will feel disconcerted, especially if they belong to a so-called "civilizational" right. For after having targeted so much and so much violence inherent in Islam, it must be difficult to make the theoretical patterns inherited from the "clash of civilizations" coincide with this bloody fact that testifies ...

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Source: lefigaro

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