Amid these riots, three other "explosions" took place.
Mehdi Meklat and Badroudine Said Abdallah affair. Mehdi Meklat and Badroudine Said Abdallah were until very recently, two cultural heroes. These two young Muslims were the darlings of the left mainstream media.[1]
In March 2016, they even had the honor of an article in The Washington Post:
"At 23, they are already celebrities, France's youngest public intellectuals.... neither sees the point of a university education, and their world begins where Paris ends, which is the point of their entire intellectual project.But in mid-February 2017, an unknown woman decided to share on Facebook some of Mehdi Meklat's tweets:
"Their columns for the Liberation newspaper's Bondy Blog, their documentaries and their 2015 novel all reveal the two friends' overarching intent: showing the world the complicated reality of the Paris suburbs where they were born and raised."
"I am going to slit your throat Muslim-style" read a tweet threatening Marine Le Pen. Another called for "Hitler to kill all the Jews", while a third said he wanted to "rape" former Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Charb, one of the victims of the January 2015 terror attacks, with a "Laguiole knife". Meklat also tweeted that he wanted to sodomize Brigitte Bardot with light bulbs.
Meklat's tweets were shared by around a million people on social networks. Then whole country discovered what the most "integrated" young Muslims had on their minds.
For nearly five years, it turned out (most of the time, under a pseudonym), Mehdi Meklat multiplied the homophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynist, offensive messages to certain personalities or was busy advocating terrorism. None of his tweets attacked, for instance, ISIS. The targets were all women, gay celebrities and Jews. When the scandal of his racist and anti-Semitic tweets began to explode on February 16, 2017, Meklat deleted more than 50,000 tweets in one night.
Meklat today lives outside France; he says he fears for his life.
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