Mohamed Sifaoui (in
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محمد سيفاوي) (born 4 July 1967) is an
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journalist and writer who claimed that he managed to infiltrate
al-Qaeda
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. He wrote a book about the experience, ''Mes "frères" assassins. Comment j'ai infiltré une cellule d'Al-Qaïda'' (meaning My assassin "brothers": How I infiltrated an al-Qaeda cell).
Many journalists criticize his ethics as his TV documentaries relate fictive situations and are polemical staging. Sifaoui has also been reprimanded by the
Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
The (, ''lit.'' ''Superior Audiovisual Council''), abbreviated CSA, was a French institution created in 1989 whose role was to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television. The creation of the was a measure foun ...
, the institution regulating the French media, for several racist comments related to the case of Estelle Mouzin ("un restaurateur asiatique mis en cause, à tort, par Mohammed Sifaoui, dans la disparition de la petite Estelle Mouzin").
RMC: Mise en demeure du CSA, après dérapage raciste
''Arrêt sur Images'', 22 avril 2008.
Regardless of the controversy around his work, Mohammed Sifaoui has written a series of studies on Islamism, especially in France, highly informative for some, but very questionable for others.
Bibliography
* ''La France malade de l'islamisme''. Editions du Cherche Midi 2002.
* ''Mes "frères" assassins. Comment j'ai infiltré une cellule d'Al-Qaïda.'' Editions du Cherche Midi 2003.
* ''Sur les traces de Ben Laden''. Editions du Cherche Midi 2004.
* ''Lettre aux islamistes de France et de Navarre''. Editions du Cherche Midi 2004.
* ''L'Affaire des caricatures. Dessins et Manipulations''. Edition Privé 2006.
* ''Combattre le terrorisme islamiste''. Editions Grasset 2007.
* ''J'ai infiltré le milieu asiatique''. Editions du Cherche Midi 2008.
* ''Éric Zemmour, une supercherie française'', Armand Colin 2010.
* ''AQMI, Le groupe terroriste qui menace la France,'' Encre d'Orient, 2010.
* ''Bouteflika, ses parrains et ses larbins'', Encre d'Orient, 2011.
* ''Histoire secrète de l'Algérie indépendante'', Nouveau Monde, 2012.
* ''
Mon frère, ce terroriste
''Mon frère, ce terroriste'' ("My brother, the terrorist") is a book written by Mohamed Sifaoui and Abdelghani Merah, the elder brother of Mohammed Merah, who murdered seven people, including three Jewish children at a school in Toulouse. Abde ...
'' (My brother the terrorist), 2012
See also
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Chahdortt Djavann
Chahdortt Djavann (; born 1967) is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. She regularly a ...
References
External links
Mohamed Sifaoui blog
1967 births
Living people
Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists
Former Muslim critics of Islam
French male non-fiction writers
French people of Algerian descent
French critics of Islam
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