Islam: all deviations are possible
Jacky Morelet, Clohars-Carnoët (Finistère)
Your article on the community order implicitly poses an essential question to Islam: when will it achieve its secularization like other great monotheistic religions? The Koran, for the most rigorous believers, serves as a fundamental text: constitution, civil code, legal code… It governs every moment of daily life. But who has the legitimacy to interpret Koranic precepts to adapt them to the principles of non-Muslim societies? No answer to this question since there is no clergy and therefore no official exegesis: in large mosques, imams are appointed; but in smaller places of worship, the self-proclaimed officiant may also be a radical extremist. Is it necessary to emphasize that their preaching will not have the same impact on the communities? From then on, all misdirection is possible. (“The call to community order”, L’Express of April 18.)
Armament: considerable expenses
Claude Gisselbrecht, Metz (Moselle)
In 2023, military spending increased by 7%, demonstrating that the planet is on a war footing! All-out rearmament is more than ever on the agenda. Ongoing or future conflicts require and will require considerable investments. Let us remember that our country occupies 2nd place among arms exporting countries, just behind the United States, but our arms industry faces many difficulties… At a time when, on a military level, the EU must find a common response, it is good to remember that our security and perhaps our survival is at stake! (“Arms sales: the new global situation”. L’Express, November 5, 2023.)
Scientific truths
Alistair Servet, Sazeret (Allier)
I would like to write to you to convey my congratulations on the work of your journalists. I read your article “A cancer epidemic among young people?” and I was surprised to see that its author had obviously read the study the article discusses, and had not just stupidly repeated what the AFP or other newspapers had communicated. Ditto on another article concerning electronic cigarettes. L’Express seems to be literally the last French newspaper whose journalists are still doing their job properly. A job that requires mastering the subject you want to talk about. As a reader whose eyes bleed every day reading about the poverty of media work, I thank you for your seriousness. (“An epidemic of cancer among young people? The scientific truth behind the numbers”, L’Express of April 4. And “Electronic cigarette: the scientific truths about vaporettes”L’Express of November 13, 2023.)
The unbridled warmongering of the Biden administration
Jérôme Onyx, Bordeaux (Gironde)
The elections in the United States resemble those in France: a deluge of “newspeak” [NDLR : novlangue] Orwellian. To understand the real issue, we must not focus on the scarecrow Trump but look at the true face of the so-called Democratic Party and of North American society, increasingly unequal, where the infant mortality rate is rising. increases. American economic power, already in decline, rests in part on the supremacy of the dollar. However, the unbridled warmongering of the Biden administration has given new impetus, perhaps irreversible, to the process of dedollarization of the world. (“American election: between Trump and Biden, the fundraising duel”, L’Express of March 31.)
Europe deserves a real project
Jacques Vuillemin, Besançon (Doubs)
The campaign is underway and very poorly started. While Europe awaits a project to enter the 21st century, the campaign gets lost in Franco-French debates between Renaissance and RN. Or adopts warlike accents when it was peace that founded Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War; reaching out to Germany in the aftermath of the war required courage and lucidity. The courage to overcome the conflicts of the past, the lucidity to build a common future. War is not a project. And the projects look like slogans. Europe deserves a real project. (“Enlargement, federal Europe: these big words that we dare not pronounce”L’Express of April 18.)
Leadership, management: to put an end to preconceived ideas
“If doctors practiced medicine the way many businesses practice management, there would be many more doctors in prison,” wrote Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, two leading management professors. Whether in books or open spaces, management is based more and more on beliefs, leaving aside the lessons of research. Through a special report, our journalists, with rationality at their core, scrutinize the fashionable management methods that affect decision-makers and their collaborators. Assessment interviews, tests, meetings, coaching… We reveal to you what works and what doesn’t. In a changing world of work, L’Express is positioning itself. Topics to also find every week in our leadership section.