Algerian novelist sparks bitter Islamophobia row

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Algerian novelist sparks bitter Islamophobia row
By Hugh Schofield
BBC News, Paris

PARIS: -- If you want a reminder of how fractious life can feel in modern-day Europe, then take a look at the furious row in France over the writings of Kamel Daoud.

Kamel Daoud is the Algerian novelist who came within an ace of winning France's top book award - the Goncourt - last year for his Camus-inspired The Meursault Investigation.

He is also an independent-minded newspaper journalist, who has won as many enemies as friends over the years for his critical articles about the state of his country.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35653496


-- BBC 2016-03-07

[SgtRock]

But by far the greater part of his anger was directed at the "naïve" political left, who in his view deliberately ignore the cultural gulf separating the Arab-Muslim world from Europe.

In an opinion piece also in Le Monde, a collective of intellectuals and academics delivered a coruscating attack on Daoud, whom they accused of "feeding the Islamophobic fantasies of a growing part of the European population."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35653496

Attack the messenger and not the message.

The good old Liberal Left who live in a world of fluffy Candy Floss and pink clouds that have no grasp of reality.

[Ulysses G.]

Indeed. These "progressive" fools ignore reality and pretend life is like they wish it was. Unfortunately, their wishful thinking about radical Islam is going bring down Western civilization.

Edited March 7, 2016 by Ulysses G.