“Symbol of resistance”, “despicable”, “intolerable”… the political class rose this Friday after the attack on the writer Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in the neck when he was preparing to give a conference in the state of New York.
The state of health of the British author, whose book the satanic verses had made him the target of a fatwa by Iranian Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini in 1989, he is “unknown” at the moment, US police announced.
The president of the Renaissance group in the Assembly Aurore Bergé described Rushdie in a tweet as “the very expression of freedom, it is the face, the voice, the interpreter” despite “the incessant threats”.
unanimous conviction
“It is a symbol of resistance against Islamist totalitarianism that has been attacked,” The president of the National Association, Jordan Bardella, launched on Twitter. “This attack shows that the Islamists will never disarm,” added Perpignan Mayor Louis Aliot, a candidate for head of the RN.
“The religious fanatics who launched a fatwa against him certainly bear the responsibility. Freedom of expression, and therefore the freedom to criticize all religions, is not negotiable”, denigrated Insoumis deputy Alexis Corbière. “Stabbed by Islamist hatred,” communist leader Fabien Roussel lashed out.
Boris Vallaud, leader of the Socialist deputies condemned an attack “serious and intolerable”. “It is freedom that is under attack,” lambasted the chairman of the environmental group in the Assembly Julien Bayou, speaking of a “despicable fatwa.”
For former right-wing presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, Salman Rushdie “embodies freedom of expression in the face of Islamist totalitarians.”
The LR president of the Grand Est region assured that “his fight against fanaticism is an example and shows that it should be our demand and vigilance against obscurantism.”
Source: BFM TV
