Zineb el-Rhazoui is a French writer, a former staff member of Charlie Hebdo, who was born in Morocco and apostatized from Islam in her youth. She escaped being killed during the jihad massacre of 2015 because she was visiting Morocco at the time of the attack.

In the following two clips from French television Ms. El-Rhazoui discusses two related issues: the way Islam is sugar-coated and falsely described even in “deradicalization” programs, and the fact that Islam is not permitted to be criticized and mocked the way other religious faiths are.

Many thanks to FreeZoxee for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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00:00 Do you know what kind of content is served today by deradicalization centers? 00:04 Radicalized people are still being told that Islam is a religion of peace and love, 00:08 that there are no issues whatsoever and any criticism of the prophet is inappropriate! 00:11 How do you expect deradicalization to be effective that way? Those people have to be 00:14 confronted ideologically. They have to be told that the beliefs they hold are nonsensical. 00:18 That is not good; Islam has to submit to any form of criticism, 00:22 to humor, to the laws of the Republic and French legislation. 00:28 Countering that ideology will not be possible as long as people are told that it is 00:33 a religion of peace and love and terrorism is the only problem. Deradicalization centers 00:36 are surely a good thing, but the kind of content that is taught there is the central question…



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