A leading left-wing political party in France’s parliament is taking legal action to hinder the release of an explosive book which uncovers the party’s collaboration with radical Islamists and its initiatives to introduce social regulations aligned with Sharia law.
La France Insoumise (Indomitable France), which has the largest number of legislators in the leftist bloc of the National Assembly, has issued a formal notice to Plon publishing house ordering it to provide it with a copy of the book Les Complices du mal (The Accomplices of Evil).
I fled the persecution of the Assad regime in Syria to live freely in the homeland of human rights, and thirteen years later, I find myself back with politicians who would like to silence me!
On September 8, LFI’s lawyer Mathieu Davy asked Plon to comply with its demand “within 24 hours.” It threatened to sue the publisher for “unfounded remarks that undermine the honor and reputation” of LFI in the book, according to the French political weekly Le Point.
French daily Le Figaro reported that they had corroborated LFI’s legal action against Plon.
Davy, however, told the newspaper that LFI had served notice on Plon because “we have no knowledge of this book and would like to know exactly what it contains, given its rather accusatory presentation.”
Scheduled for release in October, the book is authored by Omar Youssef Souleimane, a Syrian journalist who fled to France to escape Syrian intelligence after his involvement in the Arab Spring. Souleimane confirmed the Le Point story on X and Facebook. LFI did not respond to a query from Focus on Western Islamism.
Destabilizing French Democracy
The book is “a cry of alarm denouncing the murky alliance of La France Insoumise with Islamism, and its plan to destabilize French democracy,” states a summary on its back cover, as advertised on Plon’s website.
Souleimane, who fled Homs in 2012, warns of the Islamist threat to France in his book:
I have always been shocked by the presence of Islamists in France. Coming from Syria, a country where they manipulate society, culture, and human beings, I ask myself: “How is it possible that in France, a country of secularism, fundamentalists are so present? That they take advantage of democracy to infiltrate their ideology?” This destroys not only French citizenship but also the Muslims of France.
“The most disturbing thing is this alliance between Islamists and the far left,” which is “simply mind-blowing,” he writes. In the Middle East, “the Arab left adopts projects of modernity and secularism” and “often considers religion an obstacle to progress.” In France, Souleimane finds strong links between LFI politicians and Hamas or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Leftism and Islamism are opposites in the Middle East, he explains in his book: “Any imam considers leftwing ideas synonymous with infidelity, heresy, and perversion. Whereas for the left, Islam is nothing more than a backward ideology, one of the reasons why Arab countries have not progressed for years.”
Souleimane reveals how he infiltrated several pro-Palestinian demonstrations organized by LFI and Palestinian associations, “where the presence of Islamists was evident.” He concludes that his investigation uncovers the strategy of an electoral alliance between LFI and Islamists calculated to win the “Muslim community vote.”
Omar Youssef Souleimane.
(Photo ActuaLitté via Wikipedia)
Imposing Sharia-compatible Norms
The journalist, who apostatized from Islam and is now an atheist, names LFI figures like Mathilde Françoise Panot (LFI president in the National Assembly), Thomas Portes (who met Abu Amir Eleiwa, coordinator of Humani’Terre, a charity close to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas), and Rima Hassan Mobarak (a French politician of Palestinian origin), who, he writes, unhesitatingly shared space with radical Islamist leaders.
The book narrates how Islamism has found a fertile ground to cement its hold in the French welfare state with municipal subsidies, integration programs, and social assistance. Souleimane draws on intelligence reports about the Muslim Brotherhood in France, explaining how it has infiltrated local associations, NGOs, and welfare networks.
Souleimane writes:
After months of work and numerous interviews with party executives, I have uncovered the connections between certain LFI candidates and Islamic projects aimed at introducing new Sharia-compatible social norms. By broadcasting a separatist speech and playing on colonial memory to mobilize some of the French youth, these actors create the conditions for a social confrontation.
The alliance between Islamism and Leftism is “a real destabilization project that directly threatens secularism, republican universalism and national cohesion,” Souleimane warns. “I fled the persecution of the Assad regime in Syria to live freely in the homeland of human rights, and thirteen years later, I find myself back with politicians who would like to silence me!”
Former Salafist Imam Confirms LFI-Islamist Links
Meanwhile, former Salafist imam Bruno Guillot, who was interviewed on September 13 on Europe1, confirmed that the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood was to enter French political life via LFI and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The eco-socialist party, which has 80 deputies in the French parliament, has repeatedly been accused of fueling antisemitism and importing tensions from the war in Gaza to France.
Addressing LFI’s attempt to block the publication of Souleimane’s book, Guillot said that the Brotherhood “will have no shame in associating itself with political groups to achieve power, and this is what is happening to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who plays the Muslim Brotherhood’s game very well.”
Among the rules espoused by the Brotherhood is Alghayat tubarir alwasila (the end justifies the means), and “for the Muslim Brotherhood, entering politics, even if it is an anti- or anti-Sharia system, is not problematic as long as the main goal is to establish Sharia law,” he explained.
Guillot, who left Islam and became Catholic, warned that “the de-Christianization of the West, and of France in particular, actively contributes to the Islamization of society, because we lack roots and we will find them elsewhere.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is very aware of the situation in the West; they know the flaws very well, they know how to reach people through mosques and book distribution,” concluded Guillot, who writes about his experience with Islamism in his autobiography Adieu Soulayman: Itinéraire d’un imam salafiste (Farewell, Soulayman: Journey of a Salafist Imam).
Neither Souleimane nor Plon responded to a request for comment.
