Dehumanized Islamophobia

The cold assassination of Aboubakeur Cissé in a mosque is too much death. An odious crime. How can we explain such a gesture, except by bringing to light the Islamophobic behavior. A behavior that finds one of his explanations, perhaps, in the confusion that gives free rein to fantasies on Islam and the Muslims., A fantasy that nourishes and animates a campaign of fear showing that Muslims again set out to conquer the world, a fantasy that describes them as an imaginary, homogeneous and welded block whose goal is to conquer France and a fantasy that has a fantasy that has a fantasy that has a fantasy that has the border and Europe between scientific discourse, which aspires to give objective and precise knowledge of the how and the Why Things, and the ideological discourse which aims to involve, at all costs, Islam and Muslims in the misfortune of the French, a fantasy to target the Muslim as another/enemy to be killed.

A fantasy to dehumanize Islam and Muslims, by denying them any contribution to the history of humanity, tiny that is this contribution. A fantasy, finally, who wants to convince us that in each Muslim, there is a terrorist who beamif not a bigot ready to follow the first charlatan came. It is a serious mistake. Nothing is more conducive to reinforce prejudices than to speak of a feeling about Islam or the news presented as if they reflected the reality of all Muslims.

From practically from the 1970s to the present day, Islam has occupied a large space both in the media and in the academic institution. If he does not open the 8 p.m., he makes the headlines. Some writings revel in and hasten to give a dark and caricatured vision of the Koran and Muslim law by claiming that the latter was extremely violent with regard to non-Muslims. This is the case with Anne-Marie Delcambre’s book. (1) A dependent book against Islam and Muslims. It is in the hateful positions of this type of writing that we must seek the reasons for Islamophobia and all that follows in terms of disasters going as far as assassination.

What is surprising is thealignment of a certain Michel Onfray, philosopher in passing, on the same positions. In another book, and in the same spirit, Omero Marongiu-Perria notes that“It is more disturbing to observe a philosopher like Mr. Onfray brandish the passages of the Koran who came out of their context to affirm that Islam, in essence, would push Muslims to maintain a bellicose relationship with the world. »»2 It’s really amazing On the part of a philosopher for whom the critical thinking is supposed to prevail over the judgments in the cookie cutter.

What is even more surprising is the book by Mgr Rey who published Islam: threat or challenge?(2),, where it unambiguously presents Islam as threat to the Republic, to French and European identity, and to the Christian community. A book that is part of the vein of certain Islamophobes for which, according to their fantasies, France would be jeopardized by a massive presence of Muslims who would gradually develop a strategy of taxation of the Sharia law to society. Today, Aboubakeur has paid the price of this Islamophobia which simply dehumanized.

(1) Delcambre, Anne-Marie, Islam of prohibitionsParis, DDB, 2003.

2 Marongiu-Perria, Omero, Reopen the doors of IslamParis, Atlande, 2017.

(2) Editions Artège, 2019.