2023-12-21 11:15:29
Text by philosopher Cornélius Castoriadis shared by Didier Gosuin.
“The Arabs now present themselves as the eternal victims of the West. It is a grotesque mythology. The Arabs have been, since Mohammed, a conquering nation, which expanded into Asia, Africa and Europe by Arabizing the conquered populations. […]. The current expansion of the Arabs (and of Islam) is the product of conquest and the more or less forced conversion to Islam of subject populations. […] I don’t believe in current chatter about the coexistence of any cultures in diversity […]. We must move away from the generalized hypocrisy that characterizes contemporary discourse. Muslims can only live in France to the extent that, in practice, they agree not to be Muslims on a series of points. It is characteristic that the few Arab intellectuals who until now were believed to be imbued with the values of criticism and reflection now actively participate in a mythologization of Arab history, in which the Arabs have been, for thirteen centuries, white doves and all their evils are inflicted on them by Western colonization.”
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