Poll: 69% of French people believe ‘Islamo-leftism’ a serious problem
Macron’s education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer echoed the president’s concerns during an interview in October, adding that “Islamo-leftism” was wreaking “havoc on the university.”
“No one has the right to cowardice anymore,” Blanquer said, according to a translation of his comments. “There is a fight to be waged against an intellectual matrix coming from American universities and intersectional theses, which want to essentialize communities and identities, at the antipodes of our republican model which, for its part, postulates equality between human beings, independently of their characteristics of origin, sex, religion. It is the breeding ground for a fragmentation of our society and a vision of the world which converges with the interests of the Islamists.”
In October, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a radical Islamist refugee. Paty had reportedly shown his students cartoons and caricatures that included the prophet Muhammad. Some Islamic beliefs hold that depictions of the prophet Muhammad are forbidden.
Macron subsequently announced anti-Islamist measures, including the targeting of “structures, associations and people close to radical groups … who spread hate and can encourage attacks.”
Macron’s education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer echoed the president’s concerns during an interview in October, adding that “Islamo-leftism” was wreaking “havoc on the university.”
“No one has the right to cowardice anymore,” Blanquer said, according to a translation of his comments. “There is a fight to be waged against an intellectual matrix coming from American universities and intersectional theses, which want to essentialize communities and identities, at the antipodes of our republican model which, for its part, postulates equality between human beings, independently of their characteristics of origin, sex, religion. It is the breeding ground for a fragmentation of our society and a vision of the world which converges with the interests of the Islamists.”
In October, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a radical Islamist refugee. Paty had reportedly shown his students cartoons and caricatures that included the prophet Muhammad. Some Islamic beliefs hold that depictions of the prophet Muhammad are forbidden.
Macron subsequently announced anti-Islamist measures, including the targeting of “structures, associations and people close to radical groups … who spread hate and can encourage attacks.”