The minister of education in France recently announced she was launching an investigation into the influence of “Islamo-leftism” in academia — a perceived alliance between the left and Islamic culture. Rebecca Rosman reports that 600 academics have called for the minister’s resignation, while many French are still struggling to understand what is meant by the term — and what harm it can do.
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