In his book Who’s Charlie? , sparking a lively debate, Emmanuel Todd argues that the majority of the 4 million people who marched in Paris and throughout France after the terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store, demonstrating in reality for reasons “selfish” and “xenophobic” against Islam.
“I want to meet his analysis by pointing, to use his terminology, four deceptions,” the Prime Minister in an article published by Le Monde on Thursday.
A demonstration, “cry for tolerance”
Manuel Valls denounced as the act of imposture first “want to believe that January 11 was an attack against a religion, against Islam. ” “At no time! This event was launched a shout, with dignity, to tolerance and secularism, provided this tolerance,” protested the prime minister.
“It was also a cry against jihadism, which launched in the name of faith, a warped Islam is attacking the rule of law, democratic values, kill the Jews, Muslims, Christians. It was finally a denial of amalgam, “he continues.
The cartoon on the side “of the weak and discriminated against”
“The second deception is the definition of freedom of expression,” said Manuel Valls in his article entitled “Against the pessimism.”
“In our country, the caricature has always had a key role in building public opinion (…) It is most often due respect to Emmanuel Todd, the side ‘weak’ and ‘discriminated’, “he said.
“A hazy concept”
“The third imposture”, supports Manuel Valls, “it is this theory of a New Republic, concept less foggy. Emmanuel Todd wants to see January 11 an ideological confiscation by some higher social classes, guilty in essence. ”
“The historian takes no more careful with his discipline, to the point of disturbing: the anti-Dreyfus France, catholic, Vichy Do not throw anymore!”, Is exasperated Prime Minister. “The truth,” Manuel Valls replica, “is that in processions, every citizen had equal, regardless of their beliefs, origin, skin color, social class”.
“A populist temptation”
Manuel Valls finally sees a “fourth imposture” of the intellectual in “the definition of the left.” It “reflects the fashionable populist temptation that sees the ‘elites’, a fundamentally contemptuous group ‘globalization’, whose only motivation would be to betray the people.”
“Basically, for the historian-demographer become guardian of the temple, the left did well live as in the dispute, the revolutionary myth,” quipped the Prime Minister who denounced “the cynicism (. ..) on the part of intellectuals who do not believe in France. ”
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