Brian Ross wrote on Jun 3
rd, 2021 at 3:24pm:
That's enough moronic nonsense from you, Brian.
It takes nerve to survive a grilling from Sonia Mabrouk. Hardened politicians have been reduced to jelly by the smiling inquisitor who has broken through to the top in France’s mediascape over the past year. A turn with her on the breakfast interview on Europe 1 radio or the lunchtime show that she hosts on CNews television could be compared to sessions with the BBC’s John Humphrys or Emily Maitlis, but there’s a difference. The stylish woman who has turned the staid French political interview into a combat sport does not hide her views.
Mabrouk, 43, believes France is on the brink of self-destruction and has sounded the alarm in a book called Insoumission Francaise – French Insubordination. T
he country is being torn apart by an unholy alliance of woke lefties, politically correct media, gender and race activists and Muslim campaigners, she says, and the French are in danger of “becoming a foreign people in their own land”. It is time, she writes, to “rediscover the taste for grandeur and a sense of honour … Let us exalt in the soul of France.”Much of the Paris chattering classes dismiss her, yet she is one of the reasons CNews is on the verge of becoming the most-watched of the four all-news networks and has been dubbed France’s Fox TV. There is a disarming problem, though. Mabrouk is an Arab Muslim who arrived in France from Tunisia at the age of 19.
“Yes, I’m in the camp of evil but I don’t see it that way,” she tells me. “Just because you’re an immigrant, why do you have to spend your time attacking discrimination, being the victim and trying to exclude the other person – always of course the white man, the dominant male?” She is sick of people “reducing everything to race, race, race all day and sentencing you to racial house arrest”.
Mabrouk, who is tall and imposing, laughs at the way she is demonised as the “Arabe de service”, the native who served the colonial master. Liberation, a left-wing newspaper, wrote her off with a snide profile in April, mocking her “blow-dried hair a la Fox”. The fact that Mabrouk has lived for the past five years with Guy Savoy, 67, one of the grandest celebrity chefs, is also somehow held against her.
So what if she comes from a well-to-do Tunisian family with a grandfather who was minister and ambassador, she says as she chats in a Left Bank office across the street from La Closerie des Lilas, the famous brasserie. Mabrouk still had to fight her way into the Paris media after business studies in Tunisia, followed by a postgraduate at the Sorbonne. “They said you can’t do television because you’ve got an accent. I didn’t say, ‘Oh la la, that’s discrimination.’ I said, ‘I’ll get there by willpower and they’ll get used to it.’ ”
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The supposed national collapse is very much the flavour of the moment as France gears up for a presidential election next April that is shaping up as a replay of the 2017 duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally. Strife such as the Yellow Vest revolt of 2018-19 has created a febrile atmosphere that has boosted Le Pen to within range of winning and pulled the centrist Macron rightwards with it.
“We are arriving at a moment of such tension that people are saying are you on one side or another,” she says.
Either you are, like her, a universalist, a believer in the French model of enlightened civilisation, or you are one of the “deconstructionists”, her term for the champions of identity politics. “The enslavement of France is under way,” she writes in her book.
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