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Suburbs: Open letter to the preachers of left-wing self-righteousness

12 January 2022 Expertises   1070  

Hamid Zanaz

We, Algerians of immigrant origin or newcomers, Muslims or not, French nationals or not, are happy to live in France. Like all human beings, there are among us decent people, less decent people, believers, Islamists, agnostics, atheists, thieves, secularists, republicans, Christians, executives, rich people, poor people, unemployed people, employers, employees… In short, we are neither angels nor demons, we are normally constituted citizens, like all the others.

I wonder why you insist on putting us all in the same “double-bottom bag”. That of Islam and that of poverty: “The Muslims of France”, “Our persecuted, marginalised, poor, discriminated Muslim compatriots”… You say?

I don’t know in which France you live! What kind of France is it where Muslims are hunted? Listening to you, reading you play the role of our self-proclaimed defenders, our court-appointed lawyers, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I get a little angry. I laugh at your moral deficit, your ideological wandering. I am angry at ourselves for allowing ourselves to be encased in what you call the “Muslim community”.

With this irresponsible discourse, you are drawing a Maginot Line between some of these “Muslims” and the national community. Contrary to the reality on the ground, you give them the feeling of being attacked, scorned, humiliated and rejected. And it is these very people who become radicalised against this virtual injustice invented in your editorial offices and on your television sets. In a way, you are indirectly participating in the radicalisation of these young and less young people. By overemphasising their religion, you have created a religious contentment in these confused young people which has resulted, over time, in a militant, sometimes terrorist religiosity.

The Muslim-victim did not exist in France, you created him from scratch to continue to exist on the political, media and human rights scene. You have no cause left, you have lost or abandoned them all one after the other. You have come to want to create a victim in order to claim to defend it, to invent a new class to replace the working class which has shunned you forever. Thus, Madame Hidalgo, by imprudently declaring that Muslims are the Jews of the 1930s, you are trivialising fascism. In vain, because the Muslim vote that you seem to covet does not even exist!

Know that we will not play in your mediocre and macabre play. We are not an entity, but individuals. We have escaped all religious and ethnic entanglements and do not suffer from any identity deficit, rest assured!

Instead of conducting a vigorous secular discourse, evacuating Islam from the public sphere, without any qualms, like all other religions, you have consolidated in some minds the supremacy of the Muslim religion. You have cultivated the right to be different, which has led straight to the demand for different, specific rights, often in contradiction with national law. Like the Orientalists in the 1960s, you too are responsible, in a certain sense, for the rise of Islamism.
You attribute to Islam the modernist virtues of some Muslims, not all Muslims are Muslims! You consciously share the illusions of the Muslim Brotherhood because you are encyclopaedically ignorant about Islam.

Under the guise of a complex and well-equipped analysis, you want to impose on us such nonsense as “nothing-to-see” and “not-of-vaguism”. You pretend not to understand that one can criticise a religion without harming those who practise it. Your approach serves no purpose, except to encourage some to rebel against their host country.

The law must come before faith and anyone who says otherwise is an outlaw, whether Muslim, Jew, Catholic, poor or rich, foreigner or “native French”. Stop insinuating that France is a racist country! How can you expect young people from immigrant families to like France?
In a word, you are unconsciously accomplices of Islamism. Because you have never tried to help this “minority”, which you have created in the media, to keep religion at a respectful distance from politics. Fortunately, the majority of this so-called “minority” does not listen to you, does not even know that you exist. Simply because “these people” as Eric Zemmour calls them, with the contempt that characterises him, go about their daily business, get up early to go to work, like all other French people. Ahmed Merabet, Leila Kadour, Rachid Arhab, Camélia Jordana, Azouz Begag, Malek Chebel, Chimène Badi and thousands of Karim, Rachida, Mohamed, Latifa, Saïd: plumbers, bricklayers, lawyers, doctors, cooks, teachers, nurses, workers… are witnesses to their success and their peaceful integration.

So give them a break!