Report on the Muslim Brotherhood: David Guiraud Ridiculise A journalist from Europe 1 live

ByMuhammad

Faced with a journalist from Europe 1, the deputy LFI David Guiraud delivered a methodical disassembly of the alarmist narrative around the report on the “entrism” of the Muslim Brotherhood. In a tense but precise exchange, he returned his interlocutor to his approximations, to his personal impressions, and to a biased reading of the document.

Invited to comment on an already brandished report as a national threat, David Guiraud has crossed out: “At no time do we define the Muslim brothers. We are talking about a weakened divided network, the budget of which has been divided by two in five years.” He recalls that the report lists only 400 to 1,000 individuals related to the movement, a drop of water on a national scale. The Roubaix deputy also attacked what he describes as “Islamophobic instrumentalization”: “We build the figure of the Muslim as a permanent danger. It’s not neutral. And that’s the real problem.”

Arrested on the promotion of the veil from childhood, David Guiraud directly quotes the report: “Five lines. Page 50. This phenomenon is qualified as marginal, not endemic, and it is not even attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Before asserting: “When we brandish marginal details as if it were a global plan, it is that we voluntarily feed fear.”

The culmination of the exchange occurs when the journalist tries to invoke the “moderate Muslims” to justify the vigilance. David Guiraud answers, scathing: “But what is a moderate Muslim? Do you define it? How do you really believe that it is up to the state or to journalists to decide who has the right to speak in the name of a religion? It is no longer secular, it’s dangerous.” Faced with approximations, semantic shifts and personal impressions erected in truth, David Guiraud returned the interview in Fact-Checking space, refusing the logic of permanent suspicion towards Muslims and reaffirming that “The Republic has nothing to gain from this organized paranoia.”

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