d’Or – Various facts. Nice attack: reinforced surveillance in the department, mosques will close

Licra reacts

In a press release, the Dijon section of Licra, through the voice of its vice-president Alain David, reacted to the attack in Nice.

“Words kill. The Nice attack again, after that of Conflans, after that of Charlie … In the midst of the frightened tumult, the mixture of horror and despair which emerge in the multiple reactions, is it not time to take into account the obvious: the motivations of the murderers have to do, without exception with what is too often called, too easily, and without measuring the responsibility thus taken, “Islamophobia.” Because it is without exception in s ‘sheltering with this word that the assassins mobilize, sacrifice their lives in mad staging of themselves, in the exaltation of the feeling of having become the heroes of a holy war waged in the name of Islam (what is more in the present context where Muslim States, in the name, again of the fight against “Islamophobia”, endorse and encourage this war) The assassin of Samuel Paty would he have surrendered from Evreux to Conflans if it had been a question not of obtaining redress for an act of racism, but, in his eyes, of avenging the islam? The word “Islamophobia” whose success came at the beginning of the 2000s in a sort of mimetic rivalry with that of “judeophobia”, claimed to designate to combat it the racism hitting those who were called at the time of colonization “the Arabs” . Yet is it ridding the victims of racism of the violence of disparaging words, is it finally restoring their dignity, to lock them into a sense of belonging, which becomes, as we realize a little more every day, equivocal, the a feeling of horror provoked by the attacks inevitably reflecting on everything that touches on Islam thus exploited? Because (and everything in the history of civilization tells us) it is not religion that deserves to be taken into consideration but the men and women who eventually wear it and make it live: how today not to think of the famous pastoral letter of Mgr Saliège, archbishop of Toulouse, August 23, 1942, an absolute counter-example to what we are living today: “the Jews are men, the Jews are women …” in. If the meaning of Islam is a legitimate theological, or historian, or philosophical discussion, the word Islamophobia bursts into a field to which it is not authorized, polluting all debates. It broadcasts (Charb had said it, and paid for it with his life) its bad waves, arouses and excites fanatic madness, taking hostages as collateral victims, those who would on the contrary want to make Islam live fully in the world. modern.”

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