“Muslim in appearance.* “That this infamy appeared from the pen of a “researcher” regularly invited on public radio and television goes beyond simple controversy.”Muslim appearance”, is to say and assume that the one who is born muslim must subscribe to a series of ideas, demands, ways of living which correspond to what a muslim. “Muslim in appearance”, it is the Arabic version of the “bounty”, black on the outside, white on the inside – at the same time, we don’t really know anymore, since it circulates in the mud of social networks that I would be a bounty, just like Sophia Aram and Rachel Khan.
But who defines the being, the behavior, the ideas of the muslim or bounty? Is it enough to mourn the victims of the pogroms of October 7 and refuse to consider Hamas as a resistance group to escape from “Muslimness”? Is it enough to refuse communitarianism, an institutionalized racism which refuses sharing in the name of the padlocked ethnic group within oneself, to be a traitor to Islam? Muslimism is an envelope that reduces to what appears.
The envelope is as much an excuse as an aggravating cause.
It is clear to what extent today everything is reduced to the envelope. An envelope which drastically summarizes identity, kills the individual, reduces man to what he seems and only what he seems. The envelope is what is visible first and which must be overcome to make a connection, to create a debate. The envelope is color, religion, sex, social and geographical origin. The envelope is what blocks, what gets stuck, and if we do not go beyond it, if the citizen does not appear to break the impossibility of sharing, of common, we will all remain walled in our skin, and our skin will tell a single story, without surprise, without adventure, without choice.
The envelope is as much an excuse as an aggravating cause. Andy Kerbrat, Insoumis deputy but deputy of the Republic all the same, buys recreational drugs from a minor. He doesn’t buy just any drug, he buys a party drug, poor man’s cocaine. While not a day goes by without us discovering the extent of the deadly disaster of drug trafficking in Europe and the extreme youth as well as the violence of gang recruits, Andy Kerbrat is completely excused by his comrades on the left of the Hemicycle. Yes, addiction is a serious illness, but the lightness with which the Insoumis deputy was consoled, referred to as the stupidity of a brat who didn’t know what he was doing when he was partying, shows how much the Insoumis envelope is enough so as not to have to dig into the responsibility of the citizen and the representative of the nation that he is, how much his own envelope protects him.
The boundaries of the envelope are the promise of injustice
On the other hand, Nicolas Bedos’ envelope sentenced him to one year in prison, including six months in prison, accompanied by provisional execution. That is to say that his sentence will be carried out before the appeal court is seized. His lawyer, Me Julia Minkowski, is stunned. She considers that the judges have “conflated law and morality”. The judges give the impression of having condemned his personality, his arrogance, without taking into account the evidence, to make an example of the man of theater and cinema, “son of” spoiled by life, who must be punished because that he is. His admitted problem of alcohol addiction did not weigh in the blind scales of justice. Guilty because he. Disproportionate sentence for on the one hand “a right hand on the genitals (of the complainant), over her jeans in a nightclub” and on the other hand “a kiss on the neck” while Nicolas Bedos was drunk . That these facts are reprehensible, that no one has any right over another’s body is obvious. But making it the alpha and omega of sexual assault should outrage all rape victims and all those who fight to convict sexual predators.
The boundaries of the envelope are the promise of injustice, of an artificial world where condemnation and forgiveness are only for appearances, to satisfy, to please, to flatter. “The truth does not do so much good in the world as its appearances do harm,” wrote La Rochefoucauld. We have entered the terrible era of appearances.
* [NDLR : Cette expression a été utilisée par le géopolitologue Pascal Boniface qui se demandait, dans un tweet, si le maire PS de Saint-Ouen, Karim Bouamrane, était “instrumentalisé façon muslim d’apparence, qui ne critique pas Netanyahou et donc bénéficie d’une grosse promotion médiatique.”]
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