She says she is “fed up” and she wants it to be known. The comedian and columnist Sophia Aram decided to publicly address Nagui, her colleague on France Inter, via an open letter. She denounces new accusations of Islamophobia brought against her on air, with the encouragement of Nagui.
At the origin of this desire to settle scores, explains Sophia Aram, a column last Thursday in Nagui’s show “La Bande Original”.
“The comedian Julie Conti publicly accused me of being “Islamophobic”, and this, with your warmest encouragement. A serious accusation, which would have deserved to be argued, especially since, you know, since Charlie, Paty and Bernard, this accusation has already caused a lot of blood to flow. A painful but necessary reminder, to the extent that I cannot distinguish, in the accusations of the columnist of your show – nor in the jubilation they provoked in you – what is false naivety or assumed hatred towards me,” she wrote in her letter published by “Le Point”.
The comedian writes that there is no doubt about Nagui’s responsibility, nor about his “conscious and joyful adherence” to accusations with potentially serious consequences.
Sophia Aram claims to have been targeted by accusations of Islamophobia for a long time, since, she says, she has allowed herself to mock “frontally the totalitarian state of mind of the extreme left and its dogmatic positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” But criticizes Nagui and his gang, described this time as unoriginal, for resembling “this pack that I know by heart and which repeats baseless accusations ad nauseam.”
Saying she was hurt, she drives home her point: “It remains to be seen whether the harassment between colleagues and the accusation of Islamophobia are or are not part of an editorial line that you tolerate as a producer.”
Nagui has not yet reacted.
