Yana Grinshpun
Against the backdrop of the enterprise of destruction of society, some alliances of those who declare themselves "damned of the earth" may seem counter-intuitive, even improbable. And yet, there is no shortage of researchers to talk about it and to explain what the interests of each are. See in particular the work of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler [1] and L. Vidino [2].
A recent article published by the Arabic-language press of Saudi Arabia also cites Egyptian research on the "wokization" of the propagators of the Brotherhood theories and their alliance with LGBTQI++ associations.[3]. This is therefore a great "intersectional". There are many examples. In this text, we propose an illustration and an analysis of a typical discursive device that we see flourishing within the social system.
The Irredeemable
The birth certificate of a collective, pertinently self-diagnosed as “Irredeemable” [4], was published in 2018 in the pages of Libération [5]. Since then, he has been living his little existence, in a discreet, even underground, mode, benefiting in all opacity from millions of subsidies from various sources. This collective brings together LGBTQI+ representatives to establish, as a priority, the intersectionality of the struggles between the entire range of LGBT people, the discriminated from all sides who come together in the great campaign against "structural discrimination by the State":
"[…] homophobia, transphobia and sexism run through the past and present history of French society and structure it: they are produced and legitimized in the first place by the circles of power."
They propose:
"to deconstruct the cliché according to which homophobia, transphobia and sexism are the monopoly of people living in the suburbs, a stereotype which serves to mask the primary responsibility of the State and those who have the floor and the power in France;
to denounce the instrumentalization of our Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, Intersex and feminist struggles for racist, and in particular Islamophobic, purposes in France;
to contribute to making visible the individual and collective struggles of those who oppose racist, sexist and homophobic violence produced by the French State, and in the world, in particular police violence" [6] ;
This collective denies the reality that is translated into actions in the lost territories of the republic where sharia is the law and where homosexuality is not really honored. Its members advance arguments whose essential function is to pose as victims of heterosexual society, of bad white homosexuals in particular and of the French state in general.
The collective's ultimate goal is to attribute responsibility for all violence to the French state, whether racist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBT and more.
In its profession of faith, the collective breaks down these several points (deconstruction, denunciation, struggle) into different articles, which have in common that they are contradicted by the facts.
Does the French State really produce “homophobic and racist violence”?
The French State cannot claim to have made zero mistakes, while the victim position in which the collective of the Irrécupérables presents itself requires zero offense. According to a well-established scenario, the collective poses as a victim facing an all-powerful State. In the West, no one claims to be perfect. It is therefore not unlikely that civil servants (state employees) could have made words or, worse, gestures deemed insulting. But the individuals responsible are punished. As an example, let us recall the Benalla affair, a close friend of Macron, therefore part of the "racist, Islamophobic and homophobic system". He was accused of attacking demonstrators on the sidelines of the March 1er May 2018.
The first presidential reaction was one of friendly indulgence: a 15-day suspension. The scandal forced the Élysée to be more rigorous: Benalla was finally dismissed a few days later.
The downside for specialists in Islamo-LGBT victimization is that Benalla ticks at least two intersectional boxes: Moroccan and "very sensitive to the Muslim cause and to the League for the Judicial Defense of Muslims".[7]
The French State, a key player in subsidizing LGBTQI++ associations
Rather than persecuting members of the LGBTQI++ community, the French President appoints them to strategic positions that give them significant powers. [8]This is the case of Omar Didi, already president of the Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Trans Youth Affirmation Movement, appointed president of the Youth Policy Advisory Council. So much for homophobia and state racism…
State generosity is not limited to Omar Didi: it represents millions of euros and those of the European Union are driving up the stakes.
Île-de-France Prevention Health AIDS contributes to this funding:
"In total, nearly 1,2 million euros of the overall operating budget of Île-de-France Prévention Santé Sida is devoted to awareness-raising and anti-discrimination actions, youth health, LGBTphobia and AIDS prevention in high schools and via the 'Prevention Information Bus', reaching nearly 120 adolescents per year” [9]
Heterosexuals are unaware of the astronomical sums invested in their education:
« Animafac, the network of student associations, which sets up tools to combat anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination among students in the Paris region. This multi-year action with the 150 member associations of the Animafac network consists of carrying out an inventory of LGBTQI+ discrimination in universities, setting up an awareness kit and a traveling exhibition for the faculties of Île-de-France. A grant of 30 euros was dedicated to this action in 2019.”[10]
Subsidized minorities are constantly looking for their next dissatisfaction, in order to obtain compensation, preferably financial. By claiming to be "damned of the earth" they are in reality in a position of ideological hegemony, supported by the State that they denounce.
alliance unlikely
The collective shows their unconditional support for…CCIF
"We denounce the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) by the Council of Ministers. The decree of December 2re is nothing but the instrumentalization of the fight against terrorism to criminalize anti-racist struggles, the self-organization of Muslims and racialized people and criticism of the State. The dissolution of the CCIF is only one step in the government's general openly Islamophobic and liberticidal policy. As such, we call on all those who are mobilizing against the Global Security law to do the same against this dissolution, as well as against the law against supposed "separatism" which targets all Muslims.
In the same paragraph they write:
"Finally, the CCIF is accused of complacency towards homophobia, sexism or serophobia. However, the organization has never defended oppressive positions, unlike Gérald Darmanin, co-signatory of the decree. The minister belongs to a government which illegally expels AIDS patients, to countries where they will die for lack of care, or homosexual or trans people in countries where they will be persecuted. This Minister of the Interior acknowledged facts that appear to be a rape ».
The CCIF was dissolved by the Ministry of the Interior for its complacency towards homophobia, sexism or serophobia, for its incitement to hatred, including the campaign which obtained the beheading of Samuel Paty [11].
The CCIF is close to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Sunni Islamist organization whose objectives are the re-Islamization of society, the establishment of a new caliphate, the fight against "Western secular influence" and of course the fight with Zionism in Palestine. However, the CCIF was founded by those close to this movement, Muhamad Marwan; friend of Tariq Ramadan, and Rachid Abou Houdeyfa, the preacher of anti-Jewish and anti-Western hatred.
This is where we can question the trust that LGBTQ+ associations have in Islam, which is not really intersectional by its nature. Perhaps they are convinced that they can free Islam from the Koranic prescriptions when they say.
"They would have us believe that only people non-white would be homophobic and transphobic, and that the 'minorities'racial and sexual 'minorities' would be doomed to fight each other."
Let us recall the prescriptions:
“If two men among you commit fornication, punish them both.” (Quran-4:16)
"Lot said to his people: You practice your desires on men rather than women: you are truly a people who transgress the limits... And we rained down on them a rain of sulfur: See then what was the end of those who gave themselves over to sin and crime! (Quran-7:80)
"If you find anyone who does as the people of Lot did, kill him who does it, and him to whom he does it.". (Hadith Abu Dawud 38:4447)
“Stone the top and the bottom, stone them both.”(Hadith Ibn Majah 3:20:2562)
In the report, published by Lorenzo Vidino and Sergio Altuna [12] for the documentation center of political Islam, we can read how homosexuality is perceived by this organization (p.44, 186) which nevertheless advocates rapprochement with the aforementioned associations in the name of the fight against discrimination and....Islamophobia.
Islamophobia
On Irredeemable consider these reproaches vague and take up the rather lame arguments of the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which notes a "a growing trend of Islamophobia, not only in Western countries, but also to a large extent in many parts of the world." [13]
On the real side, the French Ministry of the Interior published, in 2020, unpleasant figures for the associated victims: "1 racist and xenophobic acts (mainly threats) were recorded compared to 142 in 496, an increase of 2018%. Acts of an anti-Semitic nature are also on the rise: 130 were recorded in 687 compared to 2019 in 541, an increase of 2018%." So far so good, but things get worse when we come to Islamophobia, which is supposedly on the rise: "Anti-Muslim incidents remain 'relatively low' (154 incidents, which break down into 63 actions and 91 threats), but they are up compared to 2018 (100 incidents). 'Here again, the majority of the actions concern attacks on religious property,' the ministry stressed in a press release."[14]
63 acts and 91 Islamophobic threats perpetrated on a population of 6 to 12 million individuals, certainly, it is an increase compared to the hundred acts of the previous year, but it somewhat ridicules the claims of victim primacy, especially compared to the 687 anti-Semitic acts on a population of less than 500 people.
Intersectional jargon, decolonial jargon
Intersectional jargon is part of a double victimization system: that of the call for pity and that of the call for violence.
The contradictions in which activists get caught up are part of a strategy: they openly claim to be victims of the system that needs to be destroyed, but it is this system that feeds them. The search for compassion is necessary, not only for the financial means it provides, but also to better mask the violence of radicalization.
Like all defensive activists against imaginary violence, the Irrécupérables generally make whites the enemies to be taken down, even when their particularity is to be homosexuals. Their fault is to fight against the Islamist enemy of LGBTQI+ (they are to be taken down starting with Caroline Fourest and Mila).
Decolonial rhetoric uses the same ambiguity. See Houria Bouteldja, former spokesperson for the PIR:
"See all these white phallocrats who discover themselves to be feminists when the suburbanite appears? They never have words harsh enough to crucify him, no compassion strong enough to pity us. The whole white world has communed many times, with tremolos in their voices, against the bad guy from the projects." [15]
And the same: "Our words have magical virtues. They dehypnotize us and deliver us from poisonous legacies. Whiteness is not a genetic issue. It is a power relationship."[16]
The tenuous link between "defending LGBT people" and "destruction of democracy through Islamism" involves disparate and imprecise complaints: society's inaction on AIDS and the "excess suicide rate among young LGBT people", the use of secularism to perpetuate colonial patterns, and the weapon of "universalism" drawn against "communitarianism".
The rhetorical inversion allows them to present the CCIF as a tolerant association and the French Minister of the Interior as a sexual and legal delinquent, working towards illegal expulsion. The objectives of the CCIF, like those of its cousins, the Muslim Brotherhood, are the Islamization or re-Islamization of society, the establishment of a new caliphate, the fight against "Western secular influence" and of course "the fight against" Zionism in Palestine.
This is consistent with the actions of the small movement, which already sees itself as a large collective within the caliphate: it has gathered more calls to boycott Eurovision in Israel.[17].
and to boycott Israel altogether (85 LGBTQI+ associations have signed it) than to organize an alternative Gay Pride.
And yet, it is not discourteous to be surprised when one knows the legislation in force on Palestinian territory:
Territories A and B (West Bank): "Despite the legality of homosexuality in the West Bank, there is no recognition of LGBT rights and they are victims of violence."
Gaza: "after the British withdrawal, section 152(2) of the Criminal Code no 74 of 1936 has remained in force, making homosexuals in this territory still liable to prosecution for homosexuality." [18]
The Irredeemable are innumerable, whether they bear this name or another.
They are activists driven by hatred, hatred of white people, of heterosexuals, of bad homosexuals, of Jews...
Their sprawling network of aggressive minorities, whose common denominator is increasingly microscopic, hides less and less, under the claim of victimhood, its project of domination, of formatting of brains, of colonization of political and cultural space to arrive at an imperial totalitarianism (officially supported by Europe).
