Between the hammer of the racist state and the anvil of religious or militant
communities where speech is restrained, the Muslim women of the Lallabassociation are launching a campaign on intra-community violence. Against silenceand accusations of treason, they also warn of the consequences of Islamophobia.---- On October 15, 2022, an anti-racist feminist march was held in Saint-Denisto commemorate the feminicide of Souhane Benziane, who was burned alive by hercompanion at seventeen. It was an opportunity to highlight the feminist strugglesled in working-class neighborhoods, at a time of unprecedented freedom of speech.Activists from the association for the defense of Muslim women Lallab - who hadparticipated in the organization of the march - launched a campaign in March 2023aimed at highlighting "intra-community" gender, class and racist violence[1].Their objective is to fight against the injunctions to silence which emanate frommen, families, religious or militant communities on the one hand, from the Stateand its bourgeois and racist institutions on the other hand, sometimesinternalized since childhood. It is also a question of allowing as many women andLBGTQI+ people as possible to overcome the conflicts of loyalty felt towardsthese communities, when there is fear of participating in conveying a negativeimage of them.Overcome conflicting loyaltiesHow to denounce your attacker when he is a respected imam ? who to talk to whenthe close social circle risks being destabilized ? How to confront the argumentsthat relegate the feminist struggle behind the class or anti-racist struggle ?The same questions arise in the French Jewish community, which recently saw itshighest institution, the Consistory, accused of covering up the sexual assaultsof a rabbi. The podcast "You will not be silent" by journalists SaloméParent-Rachdi and Lila Berdugo thus highlights the patriarchal mechanisms thatallow impunity, in families, religious communities and institutions.Lallab is a feminist and anti-racist association whose goal is to make the voicesheard and to defend the rights of Muslim women who are at the heart of sexist,racist and Islamophobic oppression.LallabLallab disturbs the reactionary forcesFaced with these voices that disturb the traditional order, the reactions arestrong. On the one hand, those who place themselves on the left like HouriaBouteldja, who in her last book wrote about "indigenous homosexuals" that "ifthey choose to make themselves visible", they will have to "assume" that it is "aminefield and corruptor from which they will not emerge unscathed. "On the otherside of the political spectrum, the influencer Bassem Braïki, known for hisanti-Semitism, his rromophobia and especially his negrophobia, accumulateshundreds of thousands of followers on social networks. Her favorite theme:hatred, and even the call for extermination, of women of North African origin whoare not in a relationship with men of the same origin.Lallab's campaign hits where it hurts. Faced with the instrumentalization of thefar right and the state, but also faced with discourses that relegateanti-patriarchal struggles to later, holding this double line is essential.Manu (UCL Paris North-East)To validate[1]Their appeal "Why and how to talk about intra-community violence" is online atLallab.org.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Violences-intracommunautaires-Lallab-fortes-et-fieres_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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