Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the former presidential candidate was the guest of Europe 1 on Monday evening.
According to the one who also held the post of Minister of the Interior, "it is difficult to dispute" the presence of an Islamist peril in France today.
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For Jean-Pierre Chevènement, there is no doubt.
Asked about the existence of an Islamist peril in France, the former socialist minister judged "that it is difficult to dispute it".
"It is obvious, through the attacks that we have already suffered and through the lifestyles that some want to impose on us," continued the former presidential candidate in 2002, interviewed Monday evening on Europe 1.
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"Secularism has always been a struggle"
Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who was also president of the Fondation de l'islam de France between 2016 and 2018, spoke of his conception of secularism.
"Secularism has always been a very difficult fight, it was a fight against the idea that politics and religion merged. It was the fight against the divine right of the Ancien Régime, which continued throughout of the 19th century in an eminently reactionary current of thought. To fight for secularism was to fight for freedom of thought, against ignorance ", he detailed.
And according to Jean-Pierre Chevènement, what was "the fight for the Enlightenment" is "still relevant".
"The supporters of divine right are no longer the same, they are the Islamists."