The fresh and simple freedom of Boualem Sansal, this Monday, November 24 on the morning show France Inter, reminds us of a real fact that is too often forgotten these days: we cannot like religions, one, some, all religions. Regarding the accusations leveled at him by some people, leftists, of being extreme rightists, the French-Algerian writer answered clearly: “What am I going to say? That I love Islam when I don’t? For me this is impossible. It’s not that I don’t like it… it doesn’t interest me. I study this religion as I have studied all religions.”
All non-believing leftists, who were raised in a Catholic, Jewish or Protestant culture or environment and do not believe or no longer believe in God (I am talking about the majority of those who claim to be leftists) should authorize an Algerian intellectual, who grew up in a Muslim country, to say the same thing: I don’t like my religion, I don’t like religion. This fundamental and general affirmation, this free will, this form of emancipation that we proudly claim for ourselves, from Volta
