Heretics is a political podcast that combines interviews and debates. This summer we will publish the shows from the first season here. Is it possible, today, to leave Islam? Hundreds of apostates testify to this, who have pulverized the identity assignment of relatives,
For over a year, the Hijabeuses collective has been attacking the French Football Federation to obtain the right to wear the hijab during competitions. The FFF has refused. The Hijabeuses have taken the case to the Council of State. In vain?
The hijab women wanted the moon: to be able to play football with the hijab on their heads. Supported by several disoriented associations, the hijab women did not win their case. Alone alongside the French Football Federation (FFF), the International Women's Rights League (LDIF) stood up against religious fundamentalism and won the game. We interviewed its president Annie Sugier.
During the conference organized by Décroissance Île-de-France at the town hall of the 8nd arrondissement (Paris) on June 2019, XNUMX on the theme "Demography, migrations and degrowth: taboo subjects?", a virulent debate was engaged following the presentation "Immigration, ecology and degrowth" during which a participant expressed a point of view that he transcribed, at our request, below. An interview followed, a few months later.
Texts published on the Lieux Communs website in June 2020.
In Where is antiracism going? For or against universalism (Hermann) Pierre-André Taguieff questions the future of antiracism in France after the chaotic emergence in France of American concepts such as "systemic racism" or that of the new antiracism with a decolonial tendency. The philosopher evaluates the conditions of possibility of a strong comeback of republican antiracism.
This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).
The ambition of this text is to put forward some elements of analysis for the purpose of understanding the Islamist phenomenon. This requires getting rid of a certain number of preconceived ideas...
As historian Pierre Vermeren has shown, images of Muslim calendars showing Muhammad circulated freely until the middle of the 20th century in the Maghreb and still today in Shiite countries, proof if any were needed that there is no "single Islamic bloc": science obviously proves Professor de Hamline right. But who cares anymore? While the passions of communities against science are constantly expressed, including within the French University itself, it is important to insist on what brings us together within the same citizenship. At a time when Iranian universities are getting excited to defend the freedom to study at the same time as the worst obscurantists are adorning themselves with the name "Taliban", which in their language, let us not forget, means "students", we are witnessing in the West an unprecedented regression of the universalism of knowledge of which the University should be the temple.
Yet one would expect someone like Mr. Fassin who presents himself as a sociologist to go beyond the proclaimed intentions of certain actors, especially when they are subject to sectarian influences (this is the ABC of sociology), and a feminist to refrain from promoting religious patriarchy. For those who have not understood what the "useful idiots of Islamism" are, here is a perfect illustration.
[By Claude-Henri Pirat, academic, writer] Sir, Your remarks heard on September 9 on France Inter facing Natacha Polony and again on November 12 on France Culture, facing Alain Finkielkraut and Iannis Roder regarding the wearing of