DE TOLVS MANIFEST: Vi står sammen overfor den nye totalitarisme
Efter at have besejret fascismen, nazismen og stalinismen, står verden nu over for en ny totalitær global trussel: Islamismen.
Vi, forfattere, journalister, intellektuelle, opfordrer til at modstå religiøs totalitarisme og fremme frihed, lige muligheder og verdslige værdier for alle.
De seneste begivenheder, som fulgte efter offentliggørelsen af tegninger af Muhammed i europæiske aviser, har påvist behovet for at kæmpe for disse universelle værdier. Denne kamp skal ikke vindes med våben, men på den ideologiske bane. Det, vi ser, er ikke et sammenstød mellem civilisationer eller mellem Vesten og Østen, men en global kamp, hvor demokrater står over for teokrater.
Ligesom alle andre former for totalitarisme næres islamismen af frygt og frustration. Hadets prædikanter spiller på disse følelser for at rekruttere de bataljoner, som skal gennemtvinge en frihedsdræbende verden uden lige rettigheder. Men vi fastslår klart og tydeligt: intet, end ikke fortvivlelse, retfærdiggør valget af åndsformørkelse, totalitarisme og had. Islamismen er en reaktionær ideologi, som dræber lighed, frihed og verdslighed, hvor den end forekommer. Dens succes kan kun føre til en verden baseret på uretfærdighed og dominans: mandens dominans af kvinden og islamisternes dominans af alle andre. For at imødegå dette, må vi sikre de undertrykte og diskriminerede menneskers universelle rettigheder.
Vi afviser den »kulturrelativisme», som består i at acceptere, at mænd og kvinder med muslimsk baggrund skal forbeholdes retten til lighed, frihed og verdslige værdier under henvisning til respekt for kultur og tradition. Vi nægter at give afkald på vores kritiske ånd af frygt for at blive beskyldt for »islamofobi», et uheldigt begreb, der forveksler kritik af islam som religion med stigmatisering af dens tilhængere. Vi plæderer for ytringsfrihedens universalitet, så den kritiske ånd kan komme til orde på alle kontinenter, i kamp mod alle dogmer og alle former for magtmisbrug. Vi appellerer til alle demokrater og frit tænkende mennesker i alle lande om at medvirke til, at vores århundrede må blive kendetegnet ved Oplysningen og ikke ved åndsformørkelsen.
UNDERSKRIVERE Ayaan Hirsi Ali Chahla Chafiq Caroline Fourest Bernard-Henri Lévy Irshad Manji Mehdi Mozaffari Maryam Namazie Taslima Nasreen Salman Rushdie Antoine Sfeir Philippe Val Ibn Warraq
mercredi 1 mars 2006
Presentations of signatures
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali, from somalian origin, is member of Dutch parliement, member of the liberal party VVD. Writter of the film Submission which caused the assasination of Theo Van Gogh by an islamist in november 2004, she lives under police protection.
Chahla Chafiq Chahla Chafiq, writer from iranian origin, exiled in France is a novelist and an essayist. She's the author of Le nouvel homme islamiste, la prison politique en Iran (2002). She also wrote novels such as Chemins et brouillard (2005).
Caroline Fourest Essayist, editor in chief of Prochoix (a review who defend liberties against dogmatic and integrist ideologies), author of several reference books on « laicité » and fanatism : Tirs Croisés : la laïcité à l'épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (with Fiammetta Venner), Frère Tariq : discours, stratégie et méthode de Tariq Ramadan, et la Tentation obscurantiste (Grasset, 2005). She receieved the National prize of laicité in 2005.
Bernard-Henri Lévy French philosoph, born in Algeria, engaged against all the XXth century « ism » (Fascism, antisemitism, totalitarism, terrorism), he is the author of La Barbarie à visage humain, L'Idéologie française, La Pureté dangereuse, and more recently American Vertigo.
Irshad Manji Irshad Manji is a Fellow at Yale University and the internationally best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith (en francais: "Musulmane Mais Libre"). She speaks out for free expression based on the Koran itself. Born in Ouganda, she escapes with her familiy - muslim from India - to live in Canada when she was 4. Her TV Shows and books are very successful.
Mehdi Mozaffari Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.
Maryam Namazie Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran's International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year award.
Taslima Nasreen Taslima Nasreen is born in Bangladesh. Doctor, her positions defending women and minorities brought her in trouble with a comittee of integrist called « Destroy Taslima » and to be persecuted as « apostate »
Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, including Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and, most recently, Shalimar the Clown. He has received many literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Germany's Author of the Year Award, the European Union's Aristeion Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Mantova, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T., and the president of PEN American Center. His books have been translated into over 40 languages. __ Philippe Val__ Director of publication of Charlie Hebdo (Leftwing french newspaper who have republished the cartoons on the prophet Muhammad by solidarity with the danish citizens targeted by islamists). __ Ibn Warraq__ Ibn Warraq , author notably of Why I am Not a Muslim ; Leaving Islam : Apostates Speak Out ; and The Origins of the Koran , is at present Research Fellow at a New York Institute conducting philological and historical research into the Origins of Islam and its Holy Book.
Antoine Sfeir : Born in Lebanon, christian, Antoine Sfeir choosed french nationality to live in an universalist and « laïc » (real secular) country. He is the director of Les cahiers de l'Orient and has published several reference books on islamism such as Les réseaux d'Allah (2001) et Liberté, égalité, Islam : la République face au communautarisme (2005).
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