Letter from French government official in 1928 questioning leftist and Islamic cooperation

This letter was tweeted out some days ago and found its way to my inbox.

It was from a PhD candidate at Columbia, learning and writing about North Africa, the Sahel, and France. Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

Ava Lon was good enough to translate it for us all.

It is worth noting that 1928 is the year of the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization which is at the root of most of the world’s problems today, including but not limited to, North Korea.

The letter suggests the explanation for that claim. Also that North Korea and Iran are clearly running parallel nuclear weapons programs, and that there is in fact a mosque in Pyongyang and its one of the nicest buildings there, and the muslims in it all look well fed.

Translation below the letter image:

Colonial Ministry — Paris, April 24, 1928
Department of Muslim Affairs

Request for information on #I74 [sic]
“Salafiya” in AOF [French West Africa]

COLONIAL MINISTER
to the Governor General of AOF [French West Africa]
DAKAR

For a few years now, there has been a renewal movement in the Islamic world that should, it seems, be attracting our attention.

This intellectual movement known as the “Salafi” movement tends to realize reforms in the religious order which must return the practices of worship to the purity of primitive Islam. Although it is developing outside the influence of IBN SEOUD and the Ulemas [Sunni Islamic scholars] of the Nedjd, [Nejd or Najd, central part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] it is not unlike, at various points, Arabian Wahhabism, and has sometimes been confused with it. It is already very active in Morocco,

Algeria and Tunisia. It seems that the Communist agitators are interested in it, as they are interested in anything that can disturb the established order, exalt particularisms and cause confusion.

But even if it is not used by European elements hostile to our influence, the “Salafi” movement does not fail to present, from the point of view of public order and the maintenance of our authority, serious dangers against which it is necessary to protect ourselves. Its actions, as is the rule in Islam and in all religious schisms, will certainly leave the theological field and become political.

On the other hand, this religious reform, in fact, attacks all the religious personalities whose attachment to the reigning tradition and devotion to our cause allowed them to occupy a leading position. It is also hostile to the congregations that have such a large place in the religious life of the Muslims of the AOF [French West Africa] and whose contributions we have appreciated.

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4 Replies to “Letter from French government official in 1928 questioning leftist and Islamic cooperation”

  1. “Education and religion are tightly linked, as the Church has been the teacher of Europe. Hundreds of thousands of members of the clergy have dedicated their lives to teaching and instruction, and they continue nowadays.”

    “The secularisation of teaching is a recent and incomplete phenomenon[1]. It is only with the emergence of the atheistic and rationalist school of thought, that education and religion were presented as incompatible. The pretention of rationalism to explain everything negated the epistemological legitimacy of religions.”
    https://eclj.org/religious-freedom/coe/1-high-level-seminar-on-freedom-of-religion-in-europe-achievements-and-perspectives

    Education-indoctrination has always come from the State. Terror is the begining of wisdom to conform.

    In schools the cane gave way to isolation rooms gave way to humiliation. Father, Son and Holy Spirit worshipped in individually and exclusively at any point in time.

    Allah, Man or State.

    Three Evils from vile egos.

    Whereas, they should be one Good. The Trinity, as an inner and outer; the same as the judiciary, executive and legislative bodies of civilization.