(en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 - Islamophobia: For a radical critique of religion (fr)

Karl Marx said religion, in the Critique of the Philosophy of Right Hegel published in 
1844, it is "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a world without heart, as it 
is the spirit of social conditions where the mind is excluded. It is the opium of the 
people ". Clarification of the position of Alternative libertarian about his fight against
Islamophobia. ---- In the previous issue of Alternative Libertaire are published two 
articles "Rated battery" and "Side face" criticizing Islamophobia. Article first denounced 
the militant right-wing Alain Soral. In essence, this article analyzes the strategy of the 
fascist splinter Equality and Reconciliation, is indisputable. Endorsed the libertarian 
alternative denunciation of Islamophobia: it is analyzed as a survival of the political 
domination of the post-colonial state which seeks to stigmatize the entire populations 
from North Africa and Africa dark.

The French far right, more often relayed by the Republican right and left, is on the 
offensive today on these issues and distills in society a sense of fear means the 
permanent pariah in the guise imprecise the Muslim. The recent occupation of the Mosque of 
Poitiers by a small group of extreme right is an illustration of the rise of Islamophobia 
which is an incentive to racial hatred. But an unspoken of this article is disturbing when 
he denounces the attack by the fascist Soral the Muslim theologian Tariq Ramadan, it is 
unclear whether the author takes only criticism Soral ... or s' expresses support for 
Tarik Ramadan. The second article is embarrassing advantage. Certainly, Caroline Fourest 
in his fight against Islamism, objectively plays the game of "useful idiot" in the service
of the theses of the extreme right. By fighting against specific Islamism, lower bound and 
Judaic Christian fundamentalisms, fosters objectively racist reflexes against people from
North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa.

Islamophobia incites racial hatred
But the one hand, we find the same ambiguous about Tariq Ramadan on that may appear on 
this occasion as an ally Alternative libertarian and, secondly, whatever the ambiguities 
of speech Carolina Fourest, we can not not accept the parallel between the fight against 
far-right activist and a critique of deviations of a left-wing activist who has strayed. 
Our fight against Islamophobia finds its coherence in a critique of all religions. Sure 
Alternative libertarian defends freedom of worship. Islam is not a religion that frightens
us more than any other and affirm our respect for men and women, our comrades of social 
struggle, which believers say. But putting our beliefs atheists and rationalists under 
wraps would be a mistake. Libertarian alternative in its positions, defends criticism of 
all religions, as it is true that among the main vectors of alienation and the role of the 
Libertarian Communists is to undergo a radical critique. In this period of financial 
crisis, social and ecological, it is possible to do without a review affirmed religions, 
all religions.

Jacques Dubart (AL Agen)