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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, leading intellectuals
are claiming "There is a problem with Islam in France," thus
legitimising the discourse of the racist National Front. Such
claims have been strengthened by the backlash since the terrorist
attacks in Paris in January and November 2015, coming to represent
a new 'common sense' in the political landscape, and we have seen a
similar logic play out in the United States and Europe. Edwy
Plenel, former editorial director of Le Monde, essayist and founder
of the investigative journalism website Mediapart tackles these
claims head-on, taking the side of his compatriots of Muslim
origin, culture or belief, against those who make them into
scapegoats. He demonstrates how a form of "Republican and
secularist fundamentalism" has become a mask to hide a new form of
virulent Islamophobia. At stake for Plenel is not just solidarity
but fidelity to the memory and heritage of emancipatory struggles
and he writes in defence of the Muslims, just as Zola wrote in
defence of the Jews and Sartre wrote in defence of the blacks. For
if we are to be for the oppressed then we must be for the Muslims.
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