A “clothing police”? The expression, formulated by LFI deputy Thomas Portes to denounce the ban on wearing the abaya at school, announced this Sunday by Gabriel Attal, new Minister of National Education, is for François-Xavier Bellamy “revealing “. Guest of the Great interview with Sonia Mabrouk, the MEP and vice-president of the Republicans, denounces an ambiguous position of the left on questions of secularism.
Medina applauded, “an incredible retreat from the left”
“The far left, part of the left is, unfortunately, making a pact with Islamism out of pure electoral clientelism”, he regrets this Monday morning. “And when we hear Medina acclaimed at the summer universities of insubordinate France and the Greens, we are worried about this unprecedented decline on the left,” he adds. At the heart of a controversy due to a tweet deemed anti-Semitic, the rapper Médine explained last Thursday that he “overreacted” to “an insult” and denounced the “despicable attacks” against him, during a debate on the days of summer of EELV where he was heartily applauded.
“Medina is the symbol of what today endangers our institutions”, judge François-Xavier Bellamy. “There is a break with precisely what we should be most attached to on the left and on the right, what we should defend with absolute energy. I am obviously thinking of the question of secularism. […] There is the question of defending our belonging to a common nation, this is what is threatened today”, he adds.
For the MEP, there is an ambiguity between personalities like Medina and “those who want to advance an Islamist agenda in the name of the fight against Islamophobia”. “It is this ambiguity that we should denounce,” concludes Vice-President LR, who wishes to continue his fight and calls on elected officials and left-wing activists to “pull themselves together in time to defend what also constitutes their historical heritage, the defense of laicity”.