“Islamism is not a religion”: when the denial of reality prevents Europeans from knowing who they are

This article comes from Figaro Magazine

Denial of reality is a popular hallucinatory psychosis. Believing that reality is not what it is, but what we want it to be, generates many errors. The words of Gabriel Attal informing us that “Islamism is not a religion” are an example of this mainstream pathology.

If by Islamism we mean political Islam aiming to completely subordinate the city to the laws of a God, then it is intrinsically religious. So it is only the political expression of a theology and, as such, can be qualified as a religion. Why then affirm that it is not what it is? Does the Prime Minister believe, like Carl Schmitt, that “the enemy is the face of our own question”? And that, if the enemy is a religion, therefore a civilizational matrix, the confrontation he desires would then force Europeans to ask themselves what their civilization is? But do they have the slightest idea? Can they still have an idea? Do they even want one? And if so, what is it worth in their eyes?

Fear of possible answers can explain the refusal of these questions that the very nature of the enemy poses. This is why Islamism must above all not be what it is: that would force Europeans to ask themselves if and what they are. However, at a time when many of them consider that their history and that of radical evil merge, the answer to these questions is unfortunately predictable: obsolete and evil creatures barely worthy of repenting in the trash of their own history.