A year ago, the philosophy teacher Didier Lemaire published a book entitled Lettre d’un hussard de la République (Letter from a Hussar of the Republic) in which he warned against the Islamisation of society. He was accused of lying, threatened and is now no longer allowed to teach. “We are no longer in France,” he had said.
“I am not the only teacher in Trappes who has had to leave. I also have my colleague who teaches philosophy who had to leave the high school after a student threatened him in class with the words ‘On Allah I will smash him’, a very serious threat. There is a problem in Trappes, but also all over France, including Paris, teachers are very much at risk,” he told Europe 1.
Didier Lemaire publishes the book Petite Philosophie de la nation, published by Robert Laffont. He explains this title as follows: “I have given up my career. I miss the contact with the students and for this reason I wrote this book”.
As a subject close to his heart, the philosophy professor wanted to write about the concept of the nation. It “is fractured, divided by extremely strong identitarian and social divisions, it has never been worse off than it is today,” he argued.
“Culture is one of the preconditions for the nation, but this culture is humanistic, propagating the value of the individual. This culture is under attack from certain behaviours and claims such as identity, community and Islamist claims. Wearing a headscarf, the way of eating, the way of addressing others, that is what is really problematic,” he opined. Europe 1