[3] A graduate in sociology and political science,[4] Fourest has written many books about the conservative right, the anti-abortion movement (France and USA), and contemporary fundamentalist trends in Abrahamic religions.

The other eleven signatories include Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasreen, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

[6] She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society,[7] She is an advisory board member of the Anna Lindh Foundation, an organization focused on intercultural dialogue.

[citation needed] Fourest has opposed far right FN politician Marine Le Pen and her politics in a book co-authored with Fiammetta Venner.

[9] In 2014 the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, the institution regulating the media in France, accuses Caroline Fourest of lack of rigor and unverified statements in her reporting of the Russo-Ukrainian War.