France's 'Islamo-leftism' row: Frédérique Vidal call to probe the impact of "Islamo-leftism" on intellectual circles

Smack in the middle of a pandemic comes a culture war, with the first shot fired by Emmanuel Macron's own government. Some 600 French academics have signed an open letter calling for the resignation of the junior minister for higher education. Why did Frédérique Vidal call for the national scientific research centre to probe the impact of "Islamo-leftism" on intellectual circles? What even is "Islamo-leftism"?

We ask about the timing: after a fresh wave of terror attacks, during a pandemic and ahead of next year's presidential elections. After the recent row over the right to blaspheme and the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the French are again debating free speech, groupthink and critical thinking.

The actual term "Islamo-leftism" was first employed by a left-wing British activist and this new controversy lays bare a long-simmering divide inside the French left over whether it is about classe or race, class struggle or race relations. When the French president himself accuses ideas imported from US campuses of undermining secular France's social fabric, both sides accuse the other of excusing the morally inexcusable.

"I think that Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society," Minister for Higher Education Frederique Vidal told CNews television on Sunday.

"..... Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune," Minister Frederique Vidal told CNews-TV.....

Vidal illustrates the intellectual brilliance of using critical thinking, exposing the deep hatred of the Islamic infestation.
Backward Islamics w/ a tribal mindset do not have a culture....ergo, in their diseased minds, nobody on the planet can have a culture.

France is focusing focus on “Islamo-leftism" that they rightfully believe say is Corrupting the French Culture.

Mr. Macron’s leading ministers accuse left-leaning intellectuals of justifying Islamism and even terrorism.

Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, told Parliament that the state-run National Center for Scientific Research
would oversee an investigation into the “totality of research underway in our country.....and would focus on “Islamo-leftism.’’

VIDAL: “Islamo-leftism corrupts all of society. Universities are not impervious’’ Ms. Vidal said.
Referring to scholars of race and gender, Ms. Vidal accused them of “looking at everything through
the prism of (A) their will to divide, (B) to fracture, (C) always pinpointing the 'enemy.' ’’

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