How to talk about Islam when you are not a Muslim?

ATfter the report by a French television channel on the radical Islamization of a Parisian street, a district, an identity, a culture (your choice): fear, anger, tremors and dread. We balance, on TV sets and on social networks, between the usual topics: this is not true, we could have talked about something else, it is electoral, it is stigmatizing, it is real and that should alert, we should do even faster to defend the republic. By force, an emotional routine has imposed itself.

But the most interesting is the question: can a non-Muslim Frenchman speak of Islam in France without trembling? That is to say, without trembling with anger (in the face of denial) or fear (of violence), or exhibiting a (calculated) solidarity indignation with the “targets…

Illustration: dusault for “Le Point”