The French teacher Didier Lemaire has written a book about the conditions in the town of Trappes, which is ruled by Islamists

What luck! Didier Lemaire, the philosophy teacher who denounced Islamism in Trappes, was able to find a publisher who published his “Lettre d’un hussard de la République” (Robert Laffont Publishing House).

Eric Zemmour, who denounced the same thing in France, was dismissed by publisher Albin Michel and had to self-publish in order to present “La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot” (to be published tomorrow, September 16) to his impatient readers.

But whether Didier Lemaire or Eric Zemmour, their observation is the same: the Islamisation of our society is advancing, with the complicity of a left that has abandoned republican principles and cozies up to anti-Semitism and racism (not to mention censorship and legal harassment of dissidents).

It is a sentence that sounds like a judgement: “A living teacher who speaks is more irritating than a dead teacher.

Didier Lemaire was a philosophy teacher in Trappes (Yvelines) until the beginning of 2021 and is now looking for a new job.

But everything went wrong when he denounced the spread of political Islam in the town a few weeks after the murder of Samuel Paty. The teacher who denounced a problem got into trouble himself […].

Le Point: Why did you want to return to this topic?

Didier Lemaire: I wanted to write a book of testimonies. I was a philosophy teacher in Trappes and gradually became aware of a rise in Islamism in my high school in connection with attacks. I noticed that my relationship with the students was changing, as was their relationship with the subject of philosophy. I found myself in a situation where it had become very difficult to teach philosophy in lessons.

Are you sure it is your students and not you who have changed?

[What does the journalist’s question mean, whether Didier Lemaire might have become an Islamophobic fascist? Ed. note]

I am sure of it. I was very attached to that school and to my pupils. I taught there for over twenty years. In the beginning it was a rather mixed school, the students were enthusiastic and full of energy. I loved teaching there.

But when we lost that group composition, I felt that the ideological resistance became stronger and stronger.

When did this happen?

In 2005, at the time of the riots […] By observing my students, the changes in their behaviour and in their speech, I gradually understood what was going on in their town.

You were at the centre of a fierce controversy, especially with the mayor of Trappes… What lessons did you learn from this episode?

His election had just been annulled and the mayor turned into an “angry politician” to mobilise his voters.

Unfortunately, many in the media helped to instrumentalise the debate to turn it into a controversy and discredit me […].

How would you describe the situation of withdrawal from society, this separatism, as the President of the Republic has called it?

There is an Islam of identity, victimhood and hostility towards the French that is gaining ground and fueling jihadism […].

This retreat of the community can also be seen in other phenomena: Riots, violence against the police, drug trafficking, the introduction of the law of the Kaid in these neighbourhoods… All this contributes to the feeling of omnipotence, of superiority of the “Muslims” over the French […].

As someone who has been at the centre of the media and political debate, how do you explain the polarisation on these issues?

The left as a whole has abandoned republican principles. Part of the left even approaches anti-Semitism, with a racist “anti-racism”.

It advocates an ideology of identities. For them, the French of today should atone for the crimes of the past.

It is a new version of original sin: You are guilty, not because of your deeds, but because you were born “white” or because you are descended from your ancestors […] The left is becoming totalitarian.

EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK

“I have a friend in Raqqa”.

One afternoon, we accompany school classes from a nearby high school to watch the movie Le ciel attendra by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. One of the first movies ever to deal with recruitment and enlistment for the Islamic State by portraying two teenage girls. (…) The film begins. Around me I hear only whispers. “Do you know him and him? He went there.”

“I have a friend in Raqqa. That’s exactly how they do it. “Yes, over there, they are smoking the infidel.” And so on during the whole movie […].

https://resistancerepublicaine.com/2021/09/15/didier-lemaire-une-partie-de-la-gauche-frise-avec-lantisemitisme-et-le-racisme/