There was a time when Muslims in France - it was called the Arabs - were silent, eyes down and back arched, shaved the walls. Parked in slums or barely settled in cities that would soon turn into ghettos, they had internalized their status as foreigners in precarious status. Those who in one way or another, had attained French nationality were not looking for no longer being heard.
They also admitted their status as second class citizens, victims of discrimination or injustice when it was not just acts of violence such as ratonnade. Times have changed and France. This resignation is no more. The new generations speak, claim, or clumsiness vehemently sometimes, their place in public space and do not accept being relegated to the spatial, social and even political.
These new entrants into the agora French are a rising force. A force which was already becoming traditional elites when it has not yet taken the measure of his power. This is one of the reasons for the malaise surrounding and why some prominent intellectuals join the hysterical calls about the need to discuss Islam.
In reality, all this is a battle position that dare not speak its name. Of course, Islam is a theme in gold for those who seek to overshadow the immense failure of the policies of Nicolas Sarkozy. Elected in 2007, the man has kept none of its major promises. Neither decline nor improvement of the insecurity of living conditions of the French.
Of course, he was serving the upper classes but unemployment is close to 5 million now (if we take into account the precarious jobs) and, more than ever, France is losing ground in the global economic battle. Launch a debate on Islam is like giving yourself a nice diversion for the subject leaves no one indifferent.
At the same time, it would be dishonest not to acknowledge that some Muslims living in France do nothing to fix things. Quite the contrary, we even feel that they experience some glee to scare people by behaviors that are inconsistent with the cultural habits of the country where they have the chance to live.
We know that the vast majority of Muslims or people from Muslim backgrounds are taken hostage by the bidding of the far right and the execrable behavior of a vocal minority that seems to have convinced all rights. If nobody claims the minarets, I still heard a famous athlete from Algeria to take the following remarks during a broadcast in prime: "Give us your churches deserted, you see they are met once converted into mosques.
" These are the kinds of stupidities which can only spread fear and reinforce stereotypes about proselytizing a religion considered that would address the Christian foundation of France, the former first daughter of the Church. There are no uniforms to cause a backlash of fear or even simply a misunderstanding about Muslims.
Many French are genuinely frightened or repulsed by the behavior and attitudes, however, a minority. Others found in the hatred of the Muslim way to recycle their hatred of foreigners and, more precisely, from the Arabic. It should also pay close attention to developments in the discourse of the extreme right.
By targeting the Muslims (in the name of secularism fought once), she avoids going into direct confrontation with the Jews of France have long been his primary target. When Le Pen's daughter says she has nothing against Jews, it pursues a strategy that can be found almost everywhere in Europe where far-right movements are trying to shed the label anti-Semitic thinking that this will make it respectable diatribes their anti-immigrant.
As in the 1930s, extreme right distills its venom and casts suspicion on French citizens of foreign culture. Yesterday, it was the Jews. Today, they are Muslims. And as in the 1930s, part of the French intelligentsia, more by interest than conviction, is the accomplice of this witch hunt that does not say her name.
Yesterday, it was to prevent Jewish intellectuals to speak and be heard by hovering over them the suspicion of disloyalty towards France. This is repeated today. When we hear this or that journalist or essayist, which we have no reason to doubt his intelligence, his way to join the anti-Muslim hysteria, we understand that the issue is elsewhere.
As mentioned earlier in this text, it is a battle for leadership that is just beginning. Dramatize the differences in the excess and abuse of a minority within a minority, is to force the French elites of Muslim culture to be constantly on the defensive. This is forcing them to pledge allegiance by saying and repeating at will what the majority of the French want to hear.
It is denying these intellectuals, artists and even politicians the right to speak on other subjects whether the economic and social policy or foreign policy. Suspects, they will always provide proof of successful integration before speaking. And, whatever they do, the accusation of double standards still hangs over their heads.
The debate on Islam has many facets, the one just described is perhaps the least known but most certainly not anecdotes. 
They also admitted their status as second class citizens, victims of discrimination or injustice when it was not just acts of violence such as ratonnade. Times have changed and France. This resignation is no more. The new generations speak, claim, or clumsiness vehemently sometimes, their place in public space and do not accept being relegated to the spatial, social and even political.
These new entrants into the agora French are a rising force. A force which was already becoming traditional elites when it has not yet taken the measure of his power. This is one of the reasons for the malaise surrounding and why some prominent intellectuals join the hysterical calls about the need to discuss Islam.
In reality, all this is a battle position that dare not speak its name. Of course, Islam is a theme in gold for those who seek to overshadow the immense failure of the policies of Nicolas Sarkozy. Elected in 2007, the man has kept none of its major promises. Neither decline nor improvement of the insecurity of living conditions of the French.
Of course, he was serving the upper classes but unemployment is close to 5 million now (if we take into account the precarious jobs) and, more than ever, France is losing ground in the global economic battle. Launch a debate on Islam is like giving yourself a nice diversion for the subject leaves no one indifferent.
At the same time, it would be dishonest not to acknowledge that some Muslims living in France do nothing to fix things. Quite the contrary, we even feel that they experience some glee to scare people by behaviors that are inconsistent with the cultural habits of the country where they have the chance to live.
We know that the vast majority of Muslims or people from Muslim backgrounds are taken hostage by the bidding of the far right and the execrable behavior of a vocal minority that seems to have convinced all rights. If nobody claims the minarets, I still heard a famous athlete from Algeria to take the following remarks during a broadcast in prime: "Give us your churches deserted, you see they are met once converted into mosques.
" These are the kinds of stupidities which can only spread fear and reinforce stereotypes about proselytizing a religion considered that would address the Christian foundation of France, the former first daughter of the Church. There are no uniforms to cause a backlash of fear or even simply a misunderstanding about Muslims.
Many French are genuinely frightened or repulsed by the behavior and attitudes, however, a minority. Others found in the hatred of the Muslim way to recycle their hatred of foreigners and, more precisely, from the Arabic. It should also pay close attention to developments in the discourse of the extreme right.
By targeting the Muslims (in the name of secularism fought once), she avoids going into direct confrontation with the Jews of France have long been his primary target. When Le Pen's daughter says she has nothing against Jews, it pursues a strategy that can be found almost everywhere in Europe where far-right movements are trying to shed the label anti-Semitic thinking that this will make it respectable diatribes their anti-immigrant.
As in the 1930s, extreme right distills its venom and casts suspicion on French citizens of foreign culture. Yesterday, it was the Jews. Today, they are Muslims. And as in the 1930s, part of the French intelligentsia, more by interest than conviction, is the accomplice of this witch hunt that does not say her name.
Yesterday, it was to prevent Jewish intellectuals to speak and be heard by hovering over them the suspicion of disloyalty towards France. This is repeated today. When we hear this or that journalist or essayist, which we have no reason to doubt his intelligence, his way to join the anti-Muslim hysteria, we understand that the issue is elsewhere.
As mentioned earlier in this text, it is a battle for leadership that is just beginning. Dramatize the differences in the excess and abuse of a minority within a minority, is to force the French elites of Muslim culture to be constantly on the defensive. This is forcing them to pledge allegiance by saying and repeating at will what the majority of the French want to hear.
It is denying these intellectuals, artists and even politicians the right to speak on other subjects whether the economic and social policy or foreign policy. Suspects, they will always provide proof of successful integration before speaking. And, whatever they do, the accusation of double standards still hangs over their heads.
The debate on Islam has many facets, the one just described is perhaps the least known but most certainly not anecdotes.
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