How France unrolls the pink carpet to Islamism | EUROtoday

Tou the indications, at first of the XXI^e century, present that Islamism, that’s to say political Islam, essentially the most conservative and essentially the most patriarchal, has by no means been so sturdy or have conquered so many territories in all its historical past, whereas in the beginning of the XX^e century, the fact of the Muslim world predicted the alternative.

In France, it doesn’t occur in the future with out denouncing Islamism, its entrism and its rise. However, denouncing Islamism just isn’t sufficient to face it. The combat in opposition to Islamism should above all be mental work carried out inside Islam.

This work can solely be carried out if Muslims handle to take a vital take a look at their faith, and for that, the popularity of the issues that Islam poses in present societies is important. To acknowledge an issue is to arouse need after which the need to resolve it. To deny it’s to perpetuate it. This vital look and this recognition of the existence of issues are hampered in the present day by two main obstacles.

Shelter from all vital eyes

The first impediment lies within the slogan: “If there is a problem, it is due to Muslims and not to Islam” arrange, in the beginning of the XX^e century, by Muslim conservatives to counter the method of social and political modernization wished by modernist insurance policies and intellectuals.

The latter had understood that they might not get their firm out of underdevelopment with out questioning Islam, which they began to do. The response of the conservatives – and Islamism is a conservatism – has been speedy to place an finish to those reforms, and that of Islam specifically, which that they had seen as a catastrophe.

Read too Islamism, this variant of the fascist virusTheir technique was to guard Islam protected from any vital look. Faced with the state of affairs of delay within the Muslim world, compared with the West, they determined to exempt Islam from all duty and to attribute it to Muslims who wouldn’t have revered his message, in different phrases: to put the causes of the socio -political issues of Muslims exterior Islam.

Their goal was that Islam doesn’t evolve and doesn’t change its model constructed by the primary Muslims centuries in the past. They had been conscious that, with out the reform of Islam, there could be no social reform, no political, cultural, neither even actual ethical reform.

They even launched a counter-reform, the one with the goal of discovering Islam of the primary Muslims. Their slogan, repeated all through the XX^e century, was the principle reason behind the rise and strengthening of essentially the most conservative Islamism in Muslim societies and amongst West Muslims.

A widespread conception all through the West

The second impediment lies within the idea of Islamism because it was solid in France within the early Nineteen Eighties, in different phrases as a “political Islam” distinct from Islam. Initially, the time period “Islamism”, invented in France within the 18th century^e century, designated the Muslim faith, identical to Christianity and Judaism designated respectively the Christian and Jewish faith.

In different phrases, Islamism was the French phrase translating the Arabic phrase “Islam”. XX^e century, lecturers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, whose work involved Muslim societies, determined to vary this that means.

Read too FOG: “Michel Onfray atomizes the new” collaborators “, the Islamo-leftists” By observing the phenomenon of the return of those societies to traditionalism and the rise of political-religious teams, they used the time period Islamism to designate it. They specified that this time period meant political Islam to which they attributed two traits: a recent motion which might don’t have any reference to Islam.

This conception of the time period Islamism is that which later unfold all through the West, first amongst politicians and in the end in public opinion. Jean-François Clément is likely one of the first anthropologists to contemplate Islamism as a brand new political thought, thus distinguishing it from Islam.

No scientific worth

This new idea of Islamism, as it’s solid in France, has no basis neither historical past nor theological. Muslims opted, from the primary centuries of Islam, for a faith which was not separated from its authorized half, in different phrases from its political half.

In the Koran, the interweaving between the non secular and the politician occurred within the time of Medina (622-632), when a number of Koranic verses took a authorized character. As for politico-religious actions that use Islam to take energy, they don’t seem to be a recent phenomenon; They have marked the entire historical past of Islam.

The idea of Islamism as political Islam which might don’t have anything to do with Islam places Islam protected from all vital eyes.

The new idea of Islamism, solid by lecturers in France, is a falsification of the historical past of Islam, its actuality as a faith and the historical past of Muslim societies. Let us recall that in the present day, Muslims, besides these of the Western, have no idea Islam and Islamism which might be a political Islam distinct from Islam, however an Islam which isn’t dissociated from its political dimension.

The downside posed by this new idea of Islamism goes past the truth that it has no scientific worth since its goal, too, is to put the issues posed by Islam in present societies exterior Islam and current it as free from all duty.

As for the combat in opposition to Islamism, it may well, on this case, be carried out solely exterior Islam, that’s to say with out ever questioning it as a faith. The idea of Islamism as political Islam which might don’t have anything to do with Islam too, Islam sheltered from all vital eyes and hinders the notice of Muslims of the issues that come up, consciousness vital for any reform.

Consolidate Islamic Conservatism

The French faculty, in its conception of the time period Islamism, is a part of the identical undertaking of the Islamists – as they’re known as in the present day – and significantly of the Muslim Brotherhood. She faithfully repeated their discourse both by complacency, or by ignorance of Islam and its historical past or for the sake of politically right or to consolation Muslims of their faith.

It was subsequently the perfect assist of Islamists of their combat in opposition to modernists within the Muslim world and to consolidate Islamic conservatism in France, within the West and in all Muslim world.

In France and within the West, the idea of Islamism as a political Islam which might don’t have anything to do with Islam triggered, in lots of non-Muslims, the worry of complicated Islam and Islamism, particularly since those that inform them that they’re distinct have by no means been capable of say distinguish them.

Read too “Do not give up”: the manifesto of Bruno Retailleau, a declaration of struggle to IslamismMany desire to show a blind eye to the progress of political Islam fairly than being accused of Islamophobia. Others, particularly younger individuals, don’t perceive why we accuse them of Islamo-leftism once they defend Islam and Muslims who need to apply their faith once they have been repeated for forty-five years that the issue didn’t concern Islam, however solely Islamism.

As for Western Muslims, many don’t perceive why they’re consistently reassured by saying that Islam isn’t any downside, however solely Islamism, whereas they’re known as Islamists once they need to apply what’s Islam for them.

Why will we inform them that Islam isn’t any downside, in order that it doesn’t have to vary or evolve, and why are they criticized for not adapting it to the tradition and legal guidelines of Western nations? This creates in lots of the sensation of being victims of racism, even Islamophobia.

This idea of Islamophobia, additionally invented in France, prolonged the checklist of ideas and theories that conservatives and literature have drawn up, from X^e About a century, in opposition to inventive and rational thought to stop it from expressing themselves in relation to Islam.

Human rights

The activist Islamists couldn’t hope that the brand new idea of Islamism because it was solid in France to advance their pawns within the West. It is sufficient for them to say that they solely need to apply their faith, Islam and that they’re themselves in opposition to Islamism. The idea of Islamism as a political Islam distinct from Islam was a helpful display.

In conclusion, the idea of Islamism, or political Islam which has nothing to do with Islam, is likely one of the most substantial and most influential ideas that France has created and with which it has been unrolling for forty-five years the pink carpet to political Islam, not solely by itself territory, but additionally within the West. In the Muslim world, the place essentially the most radical Islamism in the present day threatens human rights in a really worrying method, particularly these of ladies and ladies, France was one in all its biggest supporters.

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Answer

If we admit Islamism means political Islam, Islam which might not be Islamism is feasible supplied that Muslims dissociate it from the political or Islam of attorneys. This will inevitably undergo a reform of Islam, that which is oriented in the direction of the longer term and which creates new in Islam, and never that of Salafists who’s turned in the direction of the previous.

* Razika Adnani is a Franco-Algerian thinker and Islamologist. His newest work Get out of Islamism was printed by Éditions Érick Bonnier in December 2024.