(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Anti-Muslim
racism: Responding to Islamophobia (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
the terrible murders Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Hide, the number of Islamophobic acts
exploded. The mobilization is organized and hopes wide response from the social and
anti-racist movement finally emerging. ---- Following the attacks of 7 and January 9,
Islamophobia is expressed without restraint, both from individuals than from the state.
Violence to persons, attacks on places of worship, especially various racist, CRIF to
Sarkozy, far left radicals proposing a law banning the veil in the nursery. Perverse
fallout of Cazeneuve Terrorism Act (voted almost unanimously for MP's, only the EE-LV
group abstained), three children aged 8, 9 and 10 years were summoned to the police for
"apology of terrorism ".
Reaffirm the xenophobic order
Islamophobia that we see for many years, although taking more and more aspects of the
stigmatization of a religious minority, is primarily the construction of a respectable
racism ahead with progressive arguments to legitimize, waving secularism and / or
feminism. If racism is morally convicted in France today and legally denounced
discrimination, Islamophobia (among others) is a weapon of the ruling classes and their
media lackeys-nerd to reaffirm the xenophobic order and postcolonial France. Order which
was shaken by the immigration movements and popular neighborhoods (especially from marches
equality). Thus during the strikes of migrant workers Talbot-Poissy in 1984, the
government Mauroy speak strike manipulated by "fundamentalists" (sic).
So do not reduce the issue of Islamophobia to a temporary psychotic problem, but seeing a
construction in the duration of a sneaky racism, state racism legitimized by a party of
the left before the FN n ' as do his hobbyhorse. It is an ideological steamroller that
allows for the deletion of freedoms, the justification for imperialist wars and
discrimination (2004 laws, refusal of foreign voting). Like all forms of discrimination,
they facilitate the precariousness and exploitation of the proletariat and are a great
smokescreen to pass the anti-social measures (Macron law currently yesterday measures on
pensions) and divide workers.
The left divided
Finally, Islamophobia is racism that divides the left and the social movement. We can only
welcome the unitary nature of the responses that have been or will occur (meeting March 6
in Saint-Denis, convergence for March 21 "Together against all forms of racism and fascism
',' Let's initiative against racialization of political "forum in Gennevilliers May 9,
2015). But after more than ten years of division on this issue, not everything is settled.
We could still see March 6 with the call of the UOIF to the meeting of Saint-Denis. We
must reject the blackmail that followed in some media about it to discredit the
participants. Clarify things: we fight unambiguously reactionary positions carried by the
UOIF (which participated in the Demos for all and called to the meeting of March 6,
probably under pressure from its popular base undergoing the brunt Islamophobia) but it
would be absurd to fight this battle by refusing... Muslim organizations.
Libertarian Alternative resolved the issue by calling the meeting on the basis of the
appeal entitled "Against the sacred union for anti-racism and popular union"
- Denouncing "... a mythical" national unity "" to "divide those who should be united and
to unite those who should be divided" and to "bring together in one camp the ruling
classes of France and the French that 'they exploit to oppose the populations of immigrant
" ;
- In the aftermath denouncing "liberal offensive of great magnitude that results in France
by the adoption of the law and Macron accent austerity policies whose first victims are
the working classes".
Pasadena Nicolas and Jean-Marc Capellero (antiracist Committee)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Racisme-antimusulman-Riposter-a-l
