Mohamed Sifaoui (in
Arabic
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محمد سيفاوي) (born 4 July 1967) is an
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French
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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
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, 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'' (My brother the terrorist), 2012
See also
*
Chahdortt Djavann
References
External links
Mohamed Sifaoui blog
1967 births
Living people
Former Muslim critics of Islam
French male non-fiction writers
French people of Algerian descent
French critics of Islam
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