In the name of God!
Twice a month, Anne-Sylvie Sprenger puts her specialist journalist’s eye on a religious fact from the news
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Feminism, racism, anti-colonialism… On the terrain of activism, the time is one of convergence of struggles, like the joint mobilization this Saturday between the Feminist Strike and the anti-G7 demonstrations. But if the concept of intersectionality can prove relevant in the analysis of different systems of oppression, certain ideological connections appear more disturbing, even literally contradictory.
Thus the so-called communion between Catholicism and far-right ideas, brought to light following the tragic death, last February, of the young nationalist activist Quentin Deranque, lynched by far-left activists. Reconstructed little by little, the ambivalent figure of the young man did not fail to challenge. Sometimes described by those around him as a Christian driven by a sincere faith and invested in charitable works, Quentin Deranque was at the same time identified as the author of numerous racist and anti-Semitic tweets. A disturbing dissonance, which would not be exceptional if we are to believe it. the survey carried out at the beginning of June by La Croix the weekly.
