Manuel Valls denounced in an article published Thursday, May 7 in Le Monde the “impostures” Emmanuel Todd, taking the term used by the left of the intellectual in his book “Who is Charlie?” to qualify the events giant on January 11, that he “xenophobic” judge.
Prime Minister rises to the passage against the “pessimism” of some intellectuals. “I want to meet his analysis by pointing, to use his terminology, four impostures” he wrote in an article published by Le Monde on Thursday.
In his book which arouses great controversy, Emmanuel Todd says most of the 4 million people who marched in Paris and in France after the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and kosher grocery store, did in reality for “selfish” reasons and “xenophobic “against Islam
First.” imposture “mentioned by Manuel Valls:” want to believe that January 11 was an attack against religion, against Islam. ” “At no time! This event was launched a shout, with dignity, to tolerance and secularism, provided this tolerance,” said the Prime Minister.
“Freedom of expression”
“She was also a cry against jihadism, which launched in the name of faith, a warped Islam is attacking the State of law, democratic values, kill Jews, Muslims, Christians. It was finally a denial of amalgam, “he continues.
” 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, on the side of the weak and discriminated against”.
“Third imposture”, supports Manuel Valls, “Emmanuel Todd wants to see January 11 an ideological confiscation by certain higher social categories guilty by essence.”
“Populist Temptation fashionable”
“The historian takes no more careful with his discipline, to the point of disturbing: the anti-Dreyfus France, Catholic Vichy! Do not throw more, “exasperates the Prime Minister. “The truth,” Manuel Valls replica, “is that in processions, every citizen had equal”.
Manuel Valls finally sees a “fourth imposture” in “the definition of the left “. It “reflects the fashionable populist temptation that sees the elites, a fundamentally dismissive, globalist group whose only motivation would be to betray the people”.
“Basically, for the historian-demographer , became guardian of the temple, the left would live though in protest, the revolutionary myth, “quips the prime minister, cantor of a pragmatic left and manager.
Manuel Valls finally judge that” more disturbing in his theses [Emmanuel Todd] is that they are part of a cynicism, a renunciation rule, abandonment in the open field by intellectuals who no longer believe in France. “
” Our nation [...] knows a form of depression, itself fed by regular diagnostics of intellectuals “.
” Too often Our nation does not know marvel itself. The duty of politicians is then, too, to descend into the arena of ideas, answer, combat sham, “the Prime Minister.
“I wish more voices to defend our country, to better thinking challenges, to raise the standard of optimism,” he said again.
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