Il Guardian offre una puntuale analisi di Nabila Ramdani sull’integrazione delle minoranze islamiche in Francia. Ancora una volta finisce sotto i riflettori il capitolo “velo”, con le discutibili politiche adottate da Nicolas Sarkozy.
«Under such circumstances the real issue raised by Sarkozy’s burqa ban – and especially the watered down version – is not the freedom of the handful of few women who wear full veils (less than 2000 and most of them confined to isolated housing estates, according to all reliable estimates), but the very place of Islam in modern France. By targeting his tokenistic policies and soundbites at a harmless minority, Sarkozy and his cronies succeed in linking Islam with everything from sexism to national security threats. If these associations are genuine, then they should be dealt with in a manner which is honest and unambiguous. Anything less results in weak compromises engendering nothing but fear and suspicion, often without anybody really understanding why».
