Considering the incidents that have happened in France the past few years, especially the ones relating to the threats and killings of cartoonists and teachers, who can blame the French? The Muslim community was mostly silent during those incidents, is it any surprise they’re seen as encouraging, or at least tolerating, extremism?
In my experience, they weren’t silent, nobody was interested in paying attention to what they had to say in the first place. The Muslim community doesn’t have it’s own television or radio stations, unlike the far right and capital interests who spent so much time on the country’s radios and television stations and newspapers asking “why don’t we hear anything from the Muslim community?”. How is it they never find a single Muslim to interview? Maybe Muslims just aren’t ignorant enough to walk into the trap.
Not to mention if things really were that simple, then the French would be as critical of their own when they burned down the house of a mayor who was going to set up an asylum seeker’s refuge.
So yeah, I can and will blame the French for being intellectually lazy and succumbing to bigotry. Nothing new for them/us.
nobody was interested in paying attention to what they had to say in the first place. The Muslim community doesn’t have it’s own television or radio stations
This discussion is being held in the comment section of a newspaper article about a difficulty they are facing. Obviously there is media which will highlight issues the Muslim community wishes to draw attention to.
How is it they never find a single Muslim to interview? Maybe Muslims just aren’t ignorant enough to walk into the trap.
If somebody is committing atrocities supposedly on your behalf, and nobody in your community, not even the community leaders, can find the time or effort to deny it, then by default it will be assumed that you as a community so support it. The ‘trap’ is ignoring atrocities when you dislike the target of the atrocity.
Nice hypothetical, I guess, but name an instance of violence done in the name of Muslims in France that was not condemned by most public Muslim figures? The reality is that there was plenty of “speaking up” done, yet the apparatus for relaying info (aka the press) just didn’t pay attention to them and preferred airing yet again the same people asking yet again the same questions - questions like “where are the good muslims and why don’t we hear them condemning???”.
I live in a Muslim country, with Muslim press. I don’t see them condemning it either.
You don’t live in France.
- Their is no one muslim community, with not link
- Terrorists where not imply in any of this community. In fact study show that thoses communities lower the chance to get radicalized
- Their is an anti islam atmosphere in france, that is spread all days by all media. A lot of antifascist, jewish and memory of shoah organization do link this atmosphere with the antisemitic one before WWII
- People in france do not represent this racist atmosphere. Racists are more and more confident and violent, but not in greater number
Yeah that’s far right propaganda though.
What’s far right propaganda?
