Another example of the fragmentation of modern social thought: marginalisation, ghettoisation, inequality, unemployment, class … do not feature in this good article as an answer to the ‘why’ in the title, and it gives the impression that a ‘Muslim’ is not affected by those socio-economic phenomena along racism, ‘Islamophobia’ and police violence.
Update:
Alain Gabon responded to a question I had sent to him with the following:
The Middle East Eye editorial policy “dictates that a piece must be read in 5 mns and be easy reading, due to the fact everybody reads online on their cells these days).”
“Rather than a repetition of History,” wrote Gabon in his draft article, “all those interrelated events—the murder of the Arabic youth, the banlieues riots recalling those of 2005, and this new legal discrimination against the ‘hijabeuses’—are different symptoms of the same long, deep, and structural problems that France—its various governments right left or centre, its mainstream media, its dominant culture still shaped by the legacies of colonialism—has for decades developed with its ‘post-colonial’ minorities in general and in particular with those poorer, largely excluded, disenfranchised, segregated segments of those populations who live in the ‘banlieues’ and are feared and reviled by all Powers that Be. (The hijabeuses are themselves mostly French-Arabic and French-African young girls from those housing projects and lower-income classes).”
—Alain Gabon in an email dated Wednesday 5 July 2023.
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