Of course, not all Muslims living in French suburbs are anti-Semitic, violent, racist or homophobic. More importantly, the Mehdi Meklat and Houda Benyamina tweet scandal highlights the responsibility of mainstream media of the Left, who have chosen to turn a blind eye to their "protégés".
The French writer Pascal Bruckner, speaking about Mehdi Meklat, wrote in Le Figaro:
"For years, Le Monde, Liberation, Les Inrockuptibles, Télérama praised the great vitality of this kid from the suburbs, so funny, so smart that he proposed, through the voice of his "double evil" [a pseudonym of Meklat] to kill Jews, to sodomize Mrs. Valls [the prime minister's wife], spit on Charb [murdered in the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack], to break the legs of Finkielkraut [noted philosopher]... The media wanted to deny the violence of kids from the suburbs or try to make it seem the natural expression of an oppressed minority. We forget, by the way, that for a significant proportion of the Muslim community, homophobia, anti-Semitism and misogyny are part of their cultural background."
All of this happened while, in January 2017, the great, Moroccan-born historian Georges Bensoussan appeared in court for having said on radio that anti-Semitism was transmitted in many Muslim families with "mother's milk".
It is to the credit of the French court that last week, Bensoussan was acquitted of "hate speech". Not surprisingly, the prosecutor has announced that the state will appeal the verdict.
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