The media coverage of Frigide Barjot‘s visit to Morocco leaves a bitter taste.
The pink Madonna is no stranger to slip-ups, but this one is perhaps even more disturbing than the others, because it shows an absolute confusion in the battles, a politicisation and a religious anchoring of her movement that she has always contested, and above all, it shows the extent to which certain French people living in Morocco “think they’re at home”.
Madame Barjot’s visit was organised by an obscure consultant, Hugues de Monterno, manager of a communications agency, com2market, whose website “in creation” gives an accurate idea of his expertise. To dot the i’s and cross the t’s, Hugues de Monterno simply seems to have come to Morocco after leaving a major group (some call it career accidents), and works off-shoring for the same major groups, at low cost. In any case, that’s what we can gather from the various somewhat professional reports scattered around the web.
Without being overly demanding, you’d think that a company that has been in existence since 2000 would have a website that’s at least a little developed… A quick look at ‘archive.org‘ shows that the site has been under construction since 2008, with some consistency… But that’s not the main question.
The question is: what is the purpose of Frigide Barjot’s visit?
She was invited by the Moroccan section of the influential group “La Manif Pour Tous”, not to organise a demonstration against the law on marriage “for all” in France, but to “meet parents of French and Moroccan schoolchildren who are concerned about the French government’s desire to teach gender theory from primary school level“.
First observation: we are a long way from opening marriage to homosexuals.
What is gender theory? It’s a theory that explains that the difference between men and women is not (exclusively) based on nature, and the difference in chromosomes, but (essentially) constructed by the cultural and social environment.
There’s nothing very new under the sun, as Simone de Beauvoir, who has long been on the school curriculum without anyone taking offence, said in her day: “you’re not born a woman, you become one“.
It is quite true that this theory, taken to the extreme, can conflict with religious views, especially in religions such as Islam or Judaism, or to a lesser extent Christianity, which assign different roles and responsibilities to men and women.
Nevertheless, the approach of turning to a homo-friendly party girl, an expert communicator but a politician overwhelmed by events, to discuss elements of French politics on Moroccan soil, is more than dubious.
Parents who send their children to French schools know this, and have known it for a long time: they follow a French curriculum, determined by the French government and imposed on these schools under contracts of association. This curriculum is supplemented by hours of Arabic and Islamic education imposed by the Moroccan government.
Until now, we have not seen any prominent figures from mainland France come to Morocco to protest against the various education reforms. We have not seen Moroccan parents come together to protest against teaching that goes against the letter of Islam in schools that they have freely chosen for their children.
Frigide Barjot is overflowing and becoming politicised. This fight was launched by a union that was strongly right-wing, one of those political groupings that support racist discrimination measures in France.
Frigide Barjot is not here for “her fight” (which is lost). She is there to give visibility to a movement that is largely contaminated by right-wing, racist and extremist elements. The very people who do so much harm to immigrants in France. The very people for whom many French neo-colons vote (Le Pen scores in Morocco are astonishing).
Why does Morocco agree to give a platform to groups that act, globally, against the interests of its citizens?
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