Even in Gaddafi’s time before his overthrow back in 2011 Derna was always viewed as a hotbed of Islamism and the dictator was happy enough for Derna’s residents to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/23794342.libyas-countless-divisions-made-unnatural-disaster/?ref=rss

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Michael Wolffsohn, a German-Jewish historian and commentator on modern antisemitism and Islamism, is weary of Europe’s recent shift to the right.

Source: https://www.samfordcrimson.com/warning-for-biden-admin-as-europe-swings-to-the-right-and-unfettered-migration-threatens-western-values-2023-12-09.html

Officials had transferred £77,000 to the mosque before an anti-extremism group called Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) raised the alarm.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12473991/Civil-servants-rush-freeze-2-MILLION-grant-handed-mosque-decades-long-history-alleged-extremism-hate-speech-including-imam-gave-sermon-stone-women-correctly.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

They also lie, as you say, in France’s “dogmatic insistence on racial assimilation, secularism and one-size-fits-all identity”, which has become even more strident since the threat of Islamism from the 1990s.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2023/jul/09/labour-learn-cooperate-neal-lawson-compass-letters