On Wednesday 2 March, the head of the Government published a forum on Facebook, in which he supports the Algerian writer. The latter has meanwhile announced that he was stopping journalism after being accused of Islamophobia by academics.
After the novelist Franco Tunisian Fawzia Zouari pleaded the cause of Kamel Daoud in various media, it is the turn of Manuel Valls to support the Algerian writer. Wednesday 2 March, the Prime Minister has published on his Facebook page an article entitled “Support Kamel Daoud.”
“The attacks, including the incredible aggressiveness Kamel Daoud been for some days can only call us, we indignant. And to be honest: appall us, “writes the head of government at the beginning of this text
In an opinion piece in the daily Le Monde of 12 February, a collective of. historians, sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists reacted to two texts Kamel Daoud regarding sexual assaults during the night of New Year’s Eve in Cologne, author of some of which are migrants.
the group of 19 university accused him of conveying “Orientalist clichés hackneyed” by reducing Muslims to a homogeneous entity and “Islamophobic fantasies feed a growing part of the European public under the pretext to refuse any idealism.”
After the attacks, Kamel Daoud confirmed his decision to quit journalism to “dream of literature.” He was accused of having written that “sex is the greatest misery in the world of Allah” and “Women (y) is denied, denied, killed, veiled or locked possessed”.
Manuel Valls welcomes reflection Algerian writer
at Matignon, the Prime Minister denounced Wednesday the “indictment” drawn up by those intellectuals who “instead of light, nuance, criticizing “condemn” peremptorily “. In contrast, he greets reflection “personal, demanding and valuable” of the Algerian writer, winner of the Goncourt Prize for first novel Meursault, against survey .
“between the smug idealism and compulsive withdrawal, between the dangerous naivety of some – some of the left – and the real intolerance of others – from the extreme right to the anti-Muslim of sorts – he shows us the path that ‘you have to take, “said Manuel Valls.
He then assured that France was following this direction, “by knowledge, all those who have abandoned the thought that a Muslim will never be in essence a terrorist, nor a refugee . will be essentially a rapist “
in conclusion, the Prime Minister warned:” abandon this writer to her fate, it would give up ourselves. This is why it is necessary, imperative and urgent, as many have done in recent days to support Kamel Daoud. Without any hesitation. Without fail, “he said.
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