Odoxa – Eye on Islamism

Deadly knife attack reignites France’s politically charged immigration debate How the government responds to Saturday’s tragedy will have domestic and geopolitical ramifications.

February 26, 2025 Victor Goury-Laffont

(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to draw up a response to a deadly weekend knife attack in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse. The alleged perpetrator of the incident is a 37-year-old Algerian citizen, a French […]

France repatriates 51 from Syria camps in policy change

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday in the largest such operation by Paris after pressure from campaigners. The French government had long refused mass repatriations of […]

France’s Macron tacks right in bid for 2022 triumph

May 9, 2021 Clare Byrne

(AFP) Will Emmanuel Macron, the political wunderkind who steamrolled France’s establishment parties to win power as a centrist insurgent in 2017, survive a re-election battle overshadowed by Covid-19 next year? Or could the youngest French leader since Napoleon become just a one-term […]

Nearly 7 in 10 French say ‘Islamo-leftism’ a major problem

February 28, 2021 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A poll has revealed 69 per cent of French, nearly 7 in 10, say that there is a problem with an ideology of “Islamo-leftism” in the country. The Odoxa-Backbone consulting poll found that a comfortable majority of respondents believed there was a […]

Families of French IS members in Syria battle to bring them back Families in France are growing more determined to bring back relatives who left to join the so-called Islamic State. Dozens of French women and children recently vanished from the radar, leaving relatives desperate.

July 23, 2020 Lisa Louis

(Deutsche Welle) Antoine* is used to standing his ground. The trade unionist has defended workers’ rights his whole life. But when his daughter M. suddenly left to join so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq five years ago, he hit rock bottom. “It […]