But what is striking about the way we talk about Salafism is that we do not talk to them but about them. Chams Eddine Zaougui decided to do it differently. For a year he immersed himself in the subject and researched what lies behind the label of the 'religious madmen'. He went in search of the people behind the beards and long robes.
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