A quick interview with Alain de Benoist.
Translated from the French original.
Islamophobia, a recent and rather vague word, tends to invade the public space. It is even now in the dictionary. But, basically, what does that mean?
https://www.alaindebenoist.com/2019/...n-terme-piege/In the true sense, the term alludes to fear or repulsion ( phobos), but the dominant ideology prefers to pull it towards detestation and hatred. Since fear is contagious and hate provokes hatred, there is obviously no term to describe the effect of reciprocity. That said, there are of course people who hate Islam in principle and all that is related to it, and their convulsive obsessions flood social networks every day. But, in fact, as you well know, the contemporary denunciation of "phobias" is especially part of a now well-established tactic of using a repulsive word to develop a lacrimal rhetoric, to radically delegitimize certain positions and place in a state of stupefaction those who might try to rally it. This goes for Islamophobia as well as for homophobia, gynophobia, Judeophobia, cathophobia, americanophobia,
In the case of the denunciation of "Islamophobia", it is first of all to reveal any criticism, even moderate, of Islam as morally insupportable, politically hateful and criminally reprehensible.
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