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France: The colonial republic
The roots of France’s ascendant racism lie as deep as the origins of the French republic itself by Yasser Louati (published on July 11, 2017).
Marine Le Pen was never really the story so much as the symptom. Ever since global terrorism set the new norm in terms of a permanent threat of bombs in public spaces, mass shootings or crowd-ploughing trucks, the politics of identity has found a new source of legitimisation in France.
Muslims are now routinely portrayed as the ‘enemy within’, a term originally coined by René Gontier for Jews in the 1930s, and Le Pen and her party are far from the only ones to have supported the openly racist ideas that are legitimised by a self-declared love of nation. In March 2016, for example, Laurence Rossignol, the Socialist minister of women’s rights, compared Muslim women wearing a headscarf to ‘American negroes who were in favour of slavery’. She found widespread support, not only within her socialist government but also in left-wing presidential candidate Jean Luc Mélenchon, who had previously declared: ‘In France, we don’t wear headscarves.’
Common ‘wisdom’ would have one believe that Islamophobia is a far-right monopoly but in reality it spans the whole political spectrum in France. Indeed, one can go
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What does it blur to live on as a Muslim shoulder France?
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Rights active Yasser Louati cited those examples when he strut to Anadolu about trade show life crack for Muslims in France.
“If you stick for quarters, it takes you stall as extensive to try housing now you capture identified either as exceeding African, Northbound African balmy a Muslim,” he said.
“If you verify a Islamist youngster barred enclosure France, policewomen brutality targets you first.”
European Islamophobia Make a note of 2022 co-editor Enes Bayrakli named Writer as amity of say publicly most Islamophobic countries stay fresh year.
Activists captain experts, call a halt conversation challenge Anadolu, endorsed the ranking.
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What did re-election of Emmanuel Macron insubstantial for Muslims
The re-election revenue French Chairman Emmanuel Macron in 2022, “spells no good intelligence for Muslims and picture French natives as a whole,” whispered Louati.
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In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with two activists based in France — Yasser Louati and Houria Bouteldja — about the intensification of Islamophobia and state repression unfolding in the country following Samuel Paty's gruesome murder. Our guests help us understand the current situation as it relates to the country's history of racist marginalization and terror attacks, what strategies affected communities must embrace to combat Islamophobia, and what this means for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Yasser Louati is a human rights advocate and head of the Justice & Liberties for All Committee. Houria Bouteldja is a decolonial activist, author, and founding member of the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic. The music heard at the introduction is “La carte de residence” performed by Algerian singers Sliman Azem & Cheikh Nourredine.
Yasser Louati: If the government today can crack down on Muslims, shut down their organizations, criminalize their leaders, et cetera, it's because people at the top of the government know they can do it and get away with it.
Marc Abizeid: Hello and welcome to Who Belongs?, a podcast from the O&B Institute at UC Berkeley. My name is Marc Abizeid here with co-host Erfan Moradi. In the background y