Ivan Rioufol is a journalist and essayist for Le Figaro. The following opinion piece about French media bias concerning Islam was featured in his video slot “Sans Detours” (roughly: “Plain Speaking”).
Many thanks to Bear for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:08 | Islam in France is a problem. A recent survey allows us to see… | |
| 00:12 | the profound rupture between the media’s thoughts and the opinion of the French. | |
| 00:16 | The first assures that integration is working, but 67% of those surveyed… | |
| 00:20 | thought the contrary. They even judge at… | |
| 00:24 | 68% that this failure is due to refusing to integrate… | |
| 00:28 | 52% explain this fact by cultural differences… | |
| 00:32 | in contrast, the economic and social conditions generally advanced to justify | |
| 00:36 | their isolation are invoked by only 25% of those surveyed. | |
| 00:40 | The mistake would be to refuse to listen to this quiet France. | |
| 00:44 | Its perception of Islam, which it judges as too visible, dictates a reality. | |
| 00:48 | Even if it is partial there is no need to examine it… | |
| 00:52 | although it is what these people do who denounce fantasies, paranoia, racism, | |
| 00:56 | hatred, and I skipped some, this simplistic manner of reasoning | |
| 01:00 | is one employed by the greater parts of the elites, but it cannot prevail | |
| 01:04 | when they see Islam as a threat. We must ask ourselves why. | |
| 01:08 | The reproaches of those surveyed are addressed less to Muslims and more towards | |
| 01:12 | the Republic. The great majority of (immigrant descendants) affirm feeling | |
| 01:16 | French. It is the politically responsible who do not dare impose | |
| 01:20 | limits on Islam, when they demand always more visibility. | |
| 01:24 | We must be naive, for example, to not see the symbol sought by the union… | |
| 01:28 | of Islamic organizations close to the Muslim Brotherhood when it builds a | |
| 01:32 | monumental mosque on the site of the battle of Poitiers that was | |
| 01:36 | a defeat for the Islamic conquest. It is those accommodations, | |
| 01:40 | this blindness, this backwardness that make the French anxious. We must hear them. |