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 ’— a re different symptoms of the same long , deep, and structural problem s that France—its various governments right left or centre, its mains