Zanimljiva teza.
After Paris
Kenan Malik
Many have inevitably looked to these two crises as explanations for the Paris atrocities. Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria, others of lax immigration controls that have allowed terrorists to enter Europe. Both arguments seem superficially self-evident. But both are profoundly untrue.
Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the attacks. One of the terrorists in the Bataclan theatre, where at least 87 people were slaughtered, was said to have shouted ‘This is for Syria’. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy.
The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. The cafes, restaurants, bars and music venue that were attacked – Le Carillon, La Belle Equipe, Le Petit Cambodge, and the Jewish-owned Bataclan – are in the 10th and 11th arrondisements, areas that, though increasingly gentrified, remain ethnically and culturally mixed and still with a working class presence.
The other venue attacked was the Stade de France, the national football stadium. France and Germany were playing match there on Friday night, and French President François Hollande was in attendance. But the Stade de France, like France’s national football team, has also great cultural resonance. ‘Les Bleus’, as the team is known, are seen by many as an embodiment of multicultural France, a team consisting of ‘noir, blanc, beur’ (black, white, Arab) players. It was in the Stade de France that Les Bleus, led by Zinedine Zidane, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, famously won the World Cup in 1998.
What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated –
not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015/1 ... ter-paris/
svakakve mrake... a, nažalost, francusko društvo je puno takvih neintegrisanih koji će hladno progutati isilovsku priču.
