Emmanuel Macron's dangerous election gamble
After the brutal murder of the teacher Samuel Paty last year, the compatibility of Islam with the values of French democracy is still widely discussed in the country these days. Recently, the debate has taken a new turn: it now centres around the supposed existence of what was formerly a fringe, far-right idea: the so-called ‘Islamo-gauchisme', an alleged alliance between leftists and Islamists among academics and students at French universities representing a threat to the French Republic.
