This is a conversation with Rim-Sarah Alouane. She’s a French legal academic, commentator, and PhD candidate in law researching religious freedom, human rights, and civil liberties in France, Europe & North America.
We spoke about a recent piece she wrote entitled ‘A Spectre in France’s Public Debate: Islamo-Leftism‘ for Reset Dialogues.
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Topics Discussed
- What the fuck is ‘Islamo-leftism’
- How fringe conspiracy theories are being mainstreamed in France
- The role of anti-American sentiments in propagating these phenomena
- Understanding the specificity of French laicité/secularism
- The youth being more comfortable with multi-culturalism, which is provoking a conservative backlash
- The slippery slope of what’s being normalized (including security laws)
- The links between antisemitism and islamophobia, in terms of political rhetoric especially
- The legacy of colonial thinking
- The personal cost of rising authoritarianism in France
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Music by Tarabeat.
