Caroline Fourest Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Caroline Fourest (born September 19, 1975 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French feminist writer, journalist, columnist (every Saturday in Le Monde until 14 July 2012 and every Monday on France Culture), editor of the magazine ProChoix (antiracist and secularist), and author of Frère Tariq, a critical look at the works of the Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan.A graduate in sociology and political science, as a journalist she has written many books on such topics as the conservative right, the pro-life movement (France and USA), and on current fundamentalist trends in Abrahamic religions (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim). She served as President of the Gay and Lesbian Center ("Centre Gay et Lesbien"), beginning in 1999.In March 2006, she signed MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism, a manifesto against Islamist Totalitarianism that gained wide publicity. The other 11 signatories include Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasreen, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.She has received several political awards for her work, including the National award of "Laïcité" in 2005, and the "Award of the political book" in 2006.She is member of the advisory board of the Anna Lindh Foundation, for dialogue between cultures.She has been accused by Pascal Boniface of constantly pointing the finger at the Muslim population. However, Fourest has also attacked FN politician Marine Le Pen in a book co-authored with Fiammetta Venner.In October 2012, Caroline Fourest was sentenced to pay a fine of 800 euros and 3300 euros in damages for libeling Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Franck Chauffroy in her biography entitled Marine Le Pen. She was also convicted of libeling Frédéric Chatillon in January 2013. In October 2014, she was sentenced to pay 6,000 euros for libeling a young Muslim girl victim of an attack in 2013. Fourest had suggested that the attack could be fabricated, or if it was real that the girl's family could be responsible.