INTERVIEW – By erecting the murder of this faithful, killed in a mosque of the Gard, in an emblem of an “Islamophobia” which would structure our society, the radical left ignores the complex social and cultural environment of this drama, analyzes the specialist of Islam and the contemporary Arab world.
Gilles Kepel, professor emeritus of universities, has just published The upheaval of the world. From October 7 to the return of Donald Trump, Review and updated edition, unpublished maps by Fabrice Balanche, Pocket.
Le Figaro. -Do you think it is legitimate to qualify the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in the Mosque of the Grand-Combe as a “Islamophobic” or anti-Muslim nature?
Gilles Kepel. – The monstrous assassination of the young Aboubakar Cissé, stabbed with 57 stabs in the Khadidja mosque of the Grand-Combe, a disinherited commune, and formerly a mining, of the Gard, gave rise, beyond emotion and compassion perfectly legitimate for the victim, expressed by the media as the audience, to an amazing political “recovery”. This testifies to both the blinding identity polarization of which the national debate is hostage to the approach of major electoral deadlines, and also the translation on our soil of the deleterious exacerbation of ethnico-religious hatreds …
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