French Education – Mountain Dreamers

Charlie Hebdo, May 1, 2019: “The UNEF offers a religious burial to secularism and universalism” . “Shame”, “We are angry”, “They are stupid” … When we talk about the former UNEF on the new generation, we take the measure of the fracture. Between the request for the cancellation of the reading of Charb’s text and the election of a veiled spokesperson in 2018 or the ban of the play Les Suppliantes at the Sorbonne this year, the Unef is showing its positions in total opposition to its secular and universalist history. Several elders who had not spoken until then take the floor to denounce a drift. How did this shift take place? Investigation of the “intersectional” Unef.

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Le Monde, April 15, 2019: “Debates on race, gender …: rising tensions in universities” . The blocking of the play “Les Suppliantes” by Aeschylus at the Sorbonne by militants of the black cause is emblematic of the development of these tensions.

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Marianne, April 12, 2019: “How the“ decolonials ”lead the“ college war . ” In a few years, intersectional theories have imposed themselves in the social science lecture halls, on the benches as on the podium. To such an extent that ‘it becomes dangerous to question these theses.

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Marianne, April 11, 2019: DOSSIER. “The offensive of those obsessed with race, sex, gender, identity…”. There are many signs that a new anti-racist activism bordering on racism is spreading in our society. Universities, unions, media, culture, political parties… This current of thought born in the United States “colonizes” all debates.

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Liberation, April 2, 2019: ” Censored Aeschylus play: the misinterpretation of a misguided anti-racism “ . For the Vigilance Universities network, the colonial “blackface” should not be confused with an artistic choice of staging. The boycott of representation is a form of censorship which “harms the very cause it claims to defend”.

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Charlie Hebdo, February 27, 2019: “Identity: When the left loses control. The identity will be the human race. “ Where we will discover a coherence that is unknown, from the Mrap to the party of the Indigenous people of the Republic, through the Unef and the so-called” decolonial “summer camps. A growing part of the left has lost control and is now betting on the individual – man, woman, white, black, Arab, fat, old, disabled, young, old, etc. – against belonging to a single humanity. Charlie has chosen his camp: that of universalism.

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Le Monde, January 11, 2019: “At university, two camps clash, with insults, on the word ‘race'” . In his column, Michel Guerrin, editor-in-chief of “Le Monde”, underlines the struggle between the human sciences and the universalists and communitarians, and how “decolonial” thought is gaining ground in universities.

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Le Point, December 12, 2018: “Fired from his lab for opposing decolonial theories? ” A sociologist who denounced the grip of theories” racialist “on its research unit has been ousted. A rare phenomenon in academia.

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Figarovox, October 12, 2018: “The hatred of the Jews, the hatred of France and the hatred of the West intersect” . With great semantic and conceptual precision, Pierre-André Taguieff looks back on the many controversies raised by the use of the words “race” and “racism”. According to him, a new form of racism is sometimes hidden under a perverted anti-racism.

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Marianne, June 5, 2018: “A sectarian anti-racism attacking the universities: malaise in the youthful culture”

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Figarovox, November 22, 2017: “ Islamist entryism at university: help us Mr. Blanquer! ” . The invitation of Houria Bouteldja, spokesperson for the Indigènes de la République, at the University of Limoges was canceled. However, neo-racist and Islamist theses are more and more present within the university. By Céline Pina.

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Causeur, November 20, 2017: “ Université Lyon 2, the Islamist temptation ”. Faced with the mobilization of secular movements, the presidency of Lyon 2 has canceled in disaster an academic conference where one of the speakers was stuck S! A case that testifies to the growing influence of Islamo-leftism on the faculty.

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Press release from LICRA and the Laïcité République Committee, October 2, 2017: “A“ laïcophobic ”conference at the Université Lumière Lyon 2” . On October 14th, Université Lumière Lyon 2 is organizing a conference on the theme “Fighting against Islamophobia: an issue of equality.” The list of participants and the nature of their political commitment today lead LICRA and the Secularism Committee Republic to respond and alert against the university’s political exploitation.

Le Monde, June 10, 2017: ” The left torn apart by ‘anti-racist racism’ “ . The militant use of notions such as “race” or “Islamophobia” arouses growing unease in the social movement. By Jean Birnbaum.

Le Monde, July 5, 2016: “Accused of Islamophobic manipulation, the director of the IUT of Saint-Denis is released” . Suspended from his duties for eight months, Samuel Mayol will return to his post.

Conspiracy Watch, May 30, 2008: “The Islamo-leftist space” . Extract from Pierre-André Taguieff , La Judeophobie des Modernes. From Enlightenment to Global Jihad (Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008, pp. 414-424).

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RADIO

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France Culture, September 27, 2020, “Sign of the times” program by Marc Weitsmann: “Identity politics in the United States, from racism to“ cancel culture ” . What is Cancel culture? Does this phenomenon exist to the point of threatening to implode the American left and ensure the re-election of Donald Trump? Exclusive Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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France Culture, July 16, 2020, program “Le temps du debate” (Emmanuel Laurenti): “Cancel culture”: is the debate possible? “ . Sexism, racism … The “cancel culture”, a sort of boycott organized on the internet, is now on the lookout for the slightest misstep from public figures. While some see it as a new censorship, others advocate a new way of activating. At the risk of radicalizing and polarizing the debate?

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France Culture, October 25, 2020, issue “sign of the times” (Mark Weitzman): “Crisis in education and crisis of the left after the assassination of Samuel Paty” . With Jean-Louis Obin, Honorary Inspector General of National Education, author of the report known as the “Obin report” in 2004 on signs and manifestations of religious affiliation in schools, author of “how we let Islamism penetrate school ”(2020), Laurence de Cock, historian lecturer at Diderot University, Mélanie Luce, president of UNEF and Marika Bret, work environment manager at Charlie Hebdo.

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DOCUMENTARY

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” Islamogauchisme, the betrayal of the European dream “ – a film written and directed by Yves Azeroual

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“This film is dedicated to #SamuelPaty and to all the victims of Islamist terrorism. “

Why and how did a handful of intellectuals and politicians from the left and the far left, few in number but very influential in the media and in the human rights movement, imposed a veritable sanctuary of Islam in French political space to the point of becoming complacent with Islamism in the name of #PasDAmalgame? Why these intellectuals and these politicians, for the most part agnostics and libertarians, have they sunk into #IslamoGauchisme with its victim ideology and its culture of excuse?

In his shocking documentary, Yves Azéroual identifies the roots of evil, points to the troubled actions of political, media, associative and intellectual figures, ideological complicity, and, in fine, highlights the risks, for our European democracy, of seeing the political and radical Islam prevail to the detriment of Enlightenment Islam. In a disturbing face to face with the extreme right.

Speakers: Jean-Luc BENNHAMIAS; Jean BIRNBAUM; Zorah BITTAN; Christophe BOURSEILLER; Laurent BOUVET; Pascal BRUCKNER; Jean-François COLOSIMO; Raphaël ENTHOVEN; Caroline FOUREST; Jacques JULLIARD; Djorje KUZMANOVIC; Christophe MADROLLE; Céline PINA; François PUPPONI; Mohamed SIFAOUI; Dany TROM; Philippe VAL; Judith WAINTRAUB; Marc WEITZMANN;

Yves Azeroual is a journalist, essayist, novelist, creator of several television channels including TV and programs including “Secrets d’Histoire”. He wrote and directed around fifteen documentaries.

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ABROAD

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CANADA : Le Devoir, November 7, 2020: “Internal enemies of academic freedom” . By Yves Gingras, Professor at the Department of History at UQAM.

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CANADA : Le Point, October 28, 2020: “Being in favor of freedom of expression leads to being considered racist” . For uttering the word “nigger” for educational purposes, a lecturer at the University of Ottawa suffered an ordeal. One of his colleagues protests.

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GERMANY: Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 27, 2020: “Flirt mit dem Fundamentalismus” . Frankreichs Linke ringt nach dem Lehrermord um ihre Haltung.

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CANADA : Le Droit, October 27, 2020: “A new liberticidal disorder” – OPINION – “ We are professors of law at the University of Ottawa who today take the floor as citizens, in as academics and lawyers. We speak because the outside world must know that there is currently within and in the immediate fringes of our institution a toxic climate of intimidation which makes it possible to harass, intimidate and ostracize colleagues who have done nothing but bring a reasoned and reasonable word in the city. “

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ITALY: IlGiornale.it, October 20, 2020: “Oggi il vero razzismo è contro i maschi bianchi” . Non c’è opera di Pierre-André Taguieff che non abbia contribuito in modo determinante al dibattito intellettuale francese.

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UNITED STATES : Le Monde, September 6, 2016: “In American universities, freedom of expression becomes a struggle” . Faculties refuse “intellectually secure spaces” and procedures for reporting sensitive subjects that develop on certain campuses, explains “Courrier Expat”.

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UNITED KINGDOM: Marianne March 12, 2016: “United Kingdom: when the Islamists infiltrate universities. ” Drab and disturbing: on British campuses, student unions stalk freedom of expression and block the intellectual debate.

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UNITED KINGDOM: “Radical: my Journey Out Of Islamic Extremism” , Maajid Nawaz:

In the book by Michele Tribalat, “Assimilation, the end of the French model” (Editions Toucan, 2013) (statement here ) , the epilogue, titled “The Deer Hunter: the story of a repentant Islamist” , is a review of Maajid Nawaz’s book “Radical: my Journey Out Of Islamic Extremism” (not translated into French), published in 2013 in the United Kingdom but not translated into French and which recounts with great honesty what led to the recruitment of the author by an Islamist movement, Hizb al-Tahir (HT) , the liberation party. Maajid Nawaz founded a think tank, Quilliam , oriented towards the fight against extremism.

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Extract this epilogue: “The university does not know on which foot to dance with these protesting Muslims who want to found a union, which initially aims to seize power from the Salafists. The methods of the HT consist in wrapping their political discourse in a religious and multiculturalist wrapping in order to circumvent criticism and opposition: “unlike the student protests of the 1960s, by using religion and multiculturalism as a cover we brought an entirely new lexicon on Table. We knowingly present our political demands in the guise of religion and multiculturalism and label any objection to our demands as racist or intolerant. Worse, we were doing this with the generation that sympathized with socialism in their youth. […] On Form, we called ourselves Gladstone, Disraéli and parliamentary debates. We managed to trick the leaders into letting us install what was just a cover for the HT. “Maajid Nawaz compares his organization’s project to that of communism, with the advantage of the confusing religious dress:” because it was hidden behind religious dress, no one really knew what to do and people did not know what to do. above all did not want to offend ”a religious sensibility. The moral disarmament of institutions has therefore left the HT free to act as it pleases on British campuses. This strategy was served by a left committed to multiculturalism and which treated this movement as an ordinary “target population”. Today very critical of this positioning of the British left, Maajid Nawaz uses the analogy with the BNP (British National Party). If the latter had tried to take power on the campuses, the left would have mobilized and would have cried scandal. According to him, the only ones who saw clearly the danger of movements such as the HT were the Jewish Student Union and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell. They were not heard and the HT continued to thrive. “

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BELGIUM : The notebooks of Nadia Geerts, assistant professor in philosophy, international prize for secularism 2019, author and secular activist.

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