"Islam must submit to criticism, submit to humor, submit to the laws of the Republic, submit to French law". These remarks, held last Friday on CNews, are worth today to Zineb El Rhazoui daily threats. The journalist, who has worked at Charlie Hebdo , refuses to keep quiet. "I have not changed my mind since," she assures firmly at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard, Thursday on Europe 1.
Islam in France, "a taboo subject". "Insults, racist insults, threats of death or rape" ... For a week, the journalist is the target of a very violent campaign, especially on social networks. So much so that she decided to file a complaint at the beginning of the week. Since January 7, 2015, and the Islamist attack that had killed eight people in the writing of the satirical newspaper (twelve in total), Zineb El Rhazoui is placed under police protection. "Four years after Charlie Hebdo , we are still here," she laments on Europe 1, noting that the issue of Islam in France is "a taboo subject".
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Words "completely innocuous". "In reality, these words are not different from what Avicenne or Averroès (two Muslim philosophers of the 10th and 11th centuries, Ed.) Or what the Enlightenment thinkers have said about Christianity. seem completely harmless ", continues the Franco-Moroccan. According to her, this situation "is symptomatic of a deep disease that is eating away at French society".
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Unfortunately, many voices have succumbed to the intellectual terror that tries to impose this lead screed
"The duty" to make these words. Because the one also known as the pen of Zineb has "not changed its mind" on the merits. "I think that I do not have the right to just say these things, but I think that in the current context, I also have the duty, because unfortunately, many voices have given way to the intellectual terror that is trying to to impose this lead screed on us. "
Already targeted last September. Last September, she had already been the subject of hate messages after saying on C8 that women wearing the veil were following "an ideology that is that of radical Islam, which is an ideology whose outcome is terrorism" . A complaint was then filed against him by the Collective against racism and Islamophobia.