Free Speech under The Black Australia Policy, the Rise of Islamism and Post-Modernist Wokeism - Lessons From France
Posted 11 Sept 2026
By Mick Mazan
One of our Dark Emu Exposed’s readers in France suggested that perhaps Australia needs a Down-Under version of French writer, Eric Zemmour, to write the Australian-centric version of The Suicide of France.
Zemmour’s book has just been translated into English by the American, Dr Nathan Pinkoski:
In France, the progressive Left has invented a new history, identity, and legal framework. French people no longer feel at home. The France they knew has disappeared. Sound familiar? We need to pay attention to other countries, especially those in Europe. A similar process is happening in North America. There’s no reason, yet, to see why we don’t end up in the same place. Dr. Nathan Pinkoski has spent years studying French and Anglo-American political thought. This is his third book translated from French into English, and he offers insights you won’t get from other sources. - See An Interview here
Many Australians reading Pinkoski’s book Foreword & Introduction below will see unsettling parallels with what has, and is, happening in Australia. Let’s just hope we, those of us remaining, normal, Australians citizens, can mobilise and save The Lucky Country, once again, by pulling a ‘rabbit out of the hat’ politically and culturally. We need to prevent, or at least dramatically slow, the obvious slide of the country out of our arms and into a dystopian future run by the ‘bat-shit-crazy’ Left.
But who is the Australian that could write this much needed book and begin this mobilisation?
Éric Zemmour was born in 1958 and worked as a journalist for three decades, notably at Le Figaro, France’s leading newspaper. His books criticising, judicial activism, feminisms and mass migration, along with his television appearances, have made him one of the most famous critics of progressive thought in France.
Zemmour ran for President in the 2022 French presidential election, and founded the Reconquete party, which has become the fourth largest political force in the country. He placed fourth in the first round of the 2022 election.
His 2014 bestseller, The Suicide of France sold some 500,000 copies.
From the book’s dust jacket:
After Charles de Gaulle’s death in 1970, France's new leaders launched a quiet revolution. Under the guise of guiding the country into a progressive era, they destroyed everything that had made it great.
Éric Zemmour's The Suicide of France pulls back the veil on their project, showing the contempt France's new leaders had for her culture, heritage, and institutions. These new leaders destroyed the strong presidential republican system that de Gaulle had built, replacing it with the government of activist judges. They attacked the authority of the father figure, replacing him with the hollow, feminized man of managerial society.
And despite their constant expressions of disdain for the United States, they imported the worst of its post-sixties multicultural and people and ways.
Step by step, episode by episode, Zemmour describes the devious stratagems and devices that eroded the soul of a once-great nation. Released in 2014, The Suicide of France became a runaway bestseller, turning its author into one of the most famous- and infamous- writers and political figures in France.
Now available for the first time in English, this edition incudes a new introduction and conclusion. Here, Zemmour reflects on what has happened in France over the past decade. He recounts why he jumped from writer to politician, running for president of France in 2022 and founding a new political party Reconquête!. Finally. he considers the precarious situation of France and the United States today as they struggle to preserve their shared civilization.
Eric Zemmour’s and Free Speech Laws
In a live appearance on French TV show “C à Vous” in September 2016, Zemmour, who was promoting his new book at the time, claimed that “those who wage jihads” were seen by all Muslims as “good Muslims.”
He claimed France was witnessing “an invasion” with “countless neighborhoods … where many young women are veiled,” and said that French Muslims should “be given a choice between Islam and France.”
“So, if they’re French … they have to let go of what their religion is.”
The Frenchman was sued and convicted by a Parisian criminal court in 2017, which fined him €5,000 for “inciting discrimination, hatred or violence against a group on grounds of their origin or membership of a religion,” according to the ECHR statement.
The fine was reduced to €3,000 on appeal.
Zemmour then moved France’s highest court, arguing that his comments fell within the scope of freedom of expression. When this first claim was rejected, he appealed to the ECHR.
Eric Zemmour’s Failed Appeal
The following judgement summarises Zemmour’s failure to have his French conviction overturned in Europe’s highest court on these matters, The European Court of Human Rights.
