Muslimphobia - Ontological and Psychological Origins, by Nas E. Boutammina

To those who preach tolerance and freedom and would like to describe it, there is a far more devious tyranny: Muslimmophobia. Has there ever been any other intolerance towards the Muslim than in the exhaustion of a society, of a power, whose fundamental requirement is to limit officially, and not to admit unofficially anything that could , escape his control and threaten his authority and thereby risk standing up against him? No doubt it does not seem excessive to maintain that there is musulmophobia wherever there is interest, crisis, power, identity, State and religion, and this, whatever the accommodations that one or the other era Finished.

The dogmatic rigor of societies throughout the centuries, generally in solidarity with a certain vision of the Muslim, has never tolerated deviations in fact from its interpretation. They marked the course of its history with the seal of musulmophobia with their intransigence.

At the start of the 21st century, the circumstances of Muslimphobia are in many respects reminiscent of those of the 6th century. Perhaps the meaning of such musulmophobia becomes clearer in the light of the relationship between Islam and other beliefs since its advent?

Indeed, religious musulmophobia seems derisory compared to the ideological musulmophobia that replaced it. There is hardly more salvation outside the State - and its society - than there was outside the Church. Between the regimes of formal freedoms and the regimes of bureaucratic centralism, the musulmophobia of the latter most often serves as a foil for the musulmophobia of the former.

These, while accrediting the thesis of a pernicious Islam, know how to manage and develop it according to their interests. A society, a State withdrawn into a protectionist structure easily obeys reactions of xenophobia, segregation, exclusion, especially if the other is Muslim. So it is with musulmophobia.