Pierre Cassen (born 24 January 1953) is a French writer and the founder of the anti-Islam news portal

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Biography

Cassen describes himself as an old

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and former member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), and was a typographer and a former trade unionist for the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). He has said that his aim with Riposte Laïque, founded in 2007, is to create a new web-based journal as a forum for the defence of secularism, particularly against the threat from

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. Although Cassen still identifies as a leftist and says the journal has a staff from a variety of political backgrounds, it is often portrayed as far-right. Cassen participated in the international

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conference in Brussels in 2012. In 2014, he was invited by

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parliamentarian Oskar Freysinger to give a talk titled "Islam: A danger for our democracy?". He was part of an initiative to launch Pegida France alongside French writer

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, Swiss politician Jean-Luc Addor, Pierre Renversez of the Belgian "No to Islam" and Melanie Dittmer of the German Pegida in 2015. He has been a close associate of

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, president of The Patriots party. He supported

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in the 2022 French presidential election. He is in a relationship with Christine Tasin, whom he met at the first editorial conference of Riposte Laïque. Both are activists and have been fined for hate speech against Muslims. They have arranged demonstrations together with hundreds of protesters against "Islamisation", Tasin as leader of the closely associated group Republican Resistance.

Publications

* ''“Touche pas au plomb !” mémoire des derniers typographes de la presse parisienne'' (with Isabelle Repiton), 2008, * ''Assises internationales sur l'islamisation de nos pays'' (with Christine Tasin), 2011, * ''La faute du bobo Jocelyn'' (with Christine Tasin), 2011, * ''Apéro saucisson-pinard: coulisses et enjeux d'un rassemblement qui a secoué la France'' (with Christine Tasin and Fabrice Robert), 2012, * ''Le guignol de l'Élysée'', 2014, * ''Et la gauche devint la putain de l'Islam'', 2018, * ''2022 Zemmour aura le dernier mot'' (with Jacques Guillemain), 2021, * ''Transgression: Voyages du camp du « bien » vers le camp du « mal »'' (with Bernard Germain), 2023,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cassen, Pierre 1953 births Living people 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers Counter-jihad activists French critics of Islam French male non-fiction writers French political activists French Trotskyists Members of the General Confederation of Labour (France) Pegida activists People convicted of racial hatred offences