Fabrice Balanche

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Fabrice Balanche is an associate professor in political geography and research director at the University of Lyon 2, and a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute. Balanche has spent ten years in Lebanon and Syria, his main areas of study, since first engaging in fieldwork in the region in 1990.

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France Refuses To See Islamism As A Cultural Problem

by Fabrice Balanche via The Caravan
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Despite the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, the French government refuses to acknowledge the link between terrorism in France, the crisis in the Middle East, and the complacency towards the threat of political Islam on the domestic scene. The truth is that the jihadists who  hit Paris and then Brussels on March 22, 2016, had been indoctrinated in the Salafi ideology sponsored by Saudi funded mosques, indirectly financed by private donors in the Gulf, and tolerated by Turkey - the country through which they pass to Europe.