Ali Saad

The French gov­ern­ment’s ‘Is­lamo-left­ism’ ac­cu­sa­tions against acad­e­mia threat­en aca­d­e­m­ic free­dom.

Its Is­lam­o­pho­bic ap­proach to the French Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty will not help ad­dress rad­i­cal­i­sa­tion.

If France in­deed has high stan­dards of free­dom of ex­pres­sion, it should not be crim­i­nal­is­ing a po­lit­i­cal opin­ion.

In case of a runoff be­tween Ma­rine Le Pen and an­oth­er can­di­date, the Mus­lim elec­torate will ral­ly be­hind her op­po­nent.

By open­ly sup­port­ing Macron’s can­di­da­cy, main­stream me­dia in France is fail­ing eth­i­cal stan­dards of ob­jec­tiv­i­ty.

This af­fair re­flects the very essence of a sys­tem dom­i­nat­ed by rul­ing elite that serves its own fi­nan­cial in­ter­ests.

The vi­o­lent po­lice as­sault on Theo is yet an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the sys­temic po­lice bru­tal­i­ty in France’s sub­urbs.

Al­though many have voiced fears that a Trump sce­nario can hap­pen in France, a Ma­rine Le Pen vic­to­ry is high­ly un­like­ly.

Dy­lan’s si­lence and sup­port for the Is­raeli op­pres­sor makes a mock­ery of his stature as an “an­gry hu­man­i­tar­i­an”.

There is an ur­gent need to lay the foun­da­tion for a gen­uine so­cial co­he­sion while re­spect­ing cit­i­zens’ di­ver­si­ty.