The French education minister has announced an investigation into researchers “looking at everything through the prism of wanting to fracture and divide.” Her announcement came after similar concerns from other French officials.
After top French officials warned about encroaching American leftism within French universities, the French higher education minister announced an investigation into the pervasiveness of such issues.
Minister for Higher Education Frederique Vidal explained to CNews that “Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society,” according to Al-Jazeera’s translation of the remarks.
Vidal announced her intention to investigate the issue of researchers “looking at everything through the prism of wanting to fracture and divide.” She told the French Parliament that the investigation would determine “what is academic research and what is activism and opinion.”
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