“territories lost to the Republic,”

Perspective | Instead of fighting systemic racism, France wants to ‘reform Islam’ https://t.co/CEbbxj5shH　英米系の左派の見方はこんな感じだろうなという内容の記事。

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Instead of addressing the alienation of French Muslims, especially in France’s exurban ghettos, or banlieues — which experts broadly agree is the root cause that leaves some susceptible to radicalization and violence — the government aims to influence the practice of a 1,400-year-old faith, one with almost 2 billion peaceful followers around the world, including tens of millions in the West. It’s an odd answer to the problem (although one that echoes the way Napoleon regulated the practice of Judaism).

After France’s humiliating defeat in Algeria in 1962 — a trauma that remains largely unprocessed — French citizens began to see public traces of Islam as aggressions against the country’s secular essence, even if the state still closes for business on every major Catholic holiday.

But the question is why these territories have been lost. One explanation is structural

The descendants of immigrants who live in the crowded housing projects often struggle to achieve the social mobility promised by the officially color-blind republic. Applications for jobs and certain housing options can still require pictures, and people of color are often overlooked because of unconscious (or even intentional) bias. 

 

Especially among third-generation immigrants, “there is an important minority who have this problem of identity, who don’t feel French — either because they’ve been rejected or because they don’t have the desire,” he said. “Islam fills that void.” 

Days after Paty’s killing, two female attackers stabbed two Muslim women in headscarves and called them “dirty Arabs” as they walked near the Eiffel Tower. “There is a hysterical climate,” says Rachid Benzine, a French political scientist.

フランスで分離、差別されて育った3世たちの心の空虚さを埋めるものが イスラム教で、このフランスの差別問題の解決なしに、イスラム教の改革に乗り出すのはいかがなものか、というわけだろうね。

 

 

 

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