The teacher and essayist Mathieu Slama: “Islamophobia is for me the right term.”

ByMuhammad

Teacher and essayist Mathieu Slama defended unambiguously on France Info the use of the term “Islamophobia”, declaring: “Islamophobia is for me the right term. This is the term that is used by the main researchers on the subject, by activists also; it is a word that is used by the UN, by the Council of Europe, by most international organizations, NGOs etc. “

He said: “In fact it is a word that has imposed itself to describe the specific racism that Muslims live, and I think that the word Islamophobia is also important because racism against Muslims, it is also a racism which is linked to a kind of obsession, fantasy around Islam that has been created for the past 20 and 30 years.”

The essayist has developed : “We have made Islam a kind of potentially dangerous religion, a less civilized religion, less advanced than the others. We could hear this in certain speeches, especially far right, and in fact we have created a problem of Islam, especially in France in certain far -right populist speeches, etc … and we find ourselves today with a situation in the country which is still very very disturbing.” Before concluding: “Since January the Islamophobic acts have been increasing and not in small increase. It is a very clear increase. So we see in the country a rise in intolerance.”

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