Louis Sarkozy on RMC: the Islamophobic income of a media heir

ByMuhammad

This morning on RMC, Louis Sarkozy offered his little column (see video below) as one collects an inheritance: without merit, without risk, without contradiction. A key word, delivered with the assurance of someone who knows that he will never be worried. The theme of the day? KFC. The real objective? Reactivate once again the worn-out fantasy of a so-called “Islamization” of French society.

Under the guise of economic liberalism – a comfortable posture for those who have never experienced the slightest precariousness – the heir abandons all intellectual rigor to deliver a brutal ideological charge. France would be on the way to “Lebanonization”undermined by “communitarianism” et “religious obscurantism”. An ignorant comparison, insulting to the Lebanon as for the Muslims of France, brandished with no other argument than identity anxiety and social contempt.

Republic Lessons from a Child of Privilege

The lesson of “republicanism” that Louis Sarkozy claims to impart is all the more obscene because it comes from a man who has never known republican equality, but only its privileges. Plunged, daddy’s boy, propelled into the media space by a name above any skill, he embodies exactly the opposite of what he claims to defend. And yet, it is he who explains to millions of citizens what secularism, integration and respect for common rules are.

To give a pseudo-scientific veneer to his speech, he brandishes figures taken out of context – polls IFOP And Fondapol used as ideological clubs. The mechanics are perfectly oiled: essentialize, caricature, transform millions of people into a civilizational problem, then conclude with“illiberalism”an entire “community”. A lazy, unworthy method, but extremely profitable in the media.

Networks, impunity and moral hypocrisy

Nothing new though. The one who owes his visibility to his surname has a history of abject provocations. He has already made chilling remarks about the Palestinians, going so far as to wish for their death. He also distinguished himself by explicit calls for violence, aimed atAlgerian Embassy — fact established, verified, and yet carefully minimized. Calling for the burning of a foreign embassy and then posing as guardian of republican order: indecency in its purest form.

This indulgence is no accident. Louis Sarkozy benefits fully from his father’s networks, Nicolas Sarkozyrepeatedly convicted by the courts. A father who never stood out for his respect for the law, but whose son today urges Muslims to “respect the Republic”. The hypocrisy is total: giving lessons in legality from a position of protected heir, sheltered from the ordinary legal consequences suffered by those who have neither name, nor networks, nor social impunity. Last contradiction, and not the least: this pseudo-secular posture is all the more grotesque since Sarkozy maintains notorious links with the Qatara state which promotes a rigorous Islam. Again, no indignation. Islam would be a danger when it is practiced by French Muslim citizens, but perfectly acceptable when it is accompanied by billions, contracts and networks of influence.

What is at stake here goes beyond a simple chronicle. It is the obscene demonstration of a system where a privileged heir uses the Republic to mask the political and moral void of his speech. Stigmatizing Muslims is electorally profitable and socially tolerated: Louis Sarkozy knows it, and he abuses it. While it recycles fear and stirs up hatred, it distracts attention from the real struggles: social justice, real equality and the fight against all forms of racism.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.