Y'see that's the kind of attitude that means it's really difficult to address this issue seriously, sensibly, and openly. You've just proved my point. Thank you.
The fact that racism is assumed and brought into the equation as a motivation of me, the poster, because the perpetrators are generally non-white, generally maghreban...
There is a factor of the authorities going softly, softly on issues with particular cultural, racial, religious sensitivities, even in this country, hence the widespread consultation about proposals to create a new crime relating to forced marriages. Such widespread and extensive consultations are *very unusual* in the process of drafting legislation, and it has been acknowledged in radio interviews by politicians that this is to ensure that the communities don't feel singled out or discriminated against (and the communities particularly, but not exclusively, affected by this are Bangladeshi and from certain regions in Pakistan). The authorities are very aware that targeting certain non-white sections of society with legislation may be perceived to be racist by those sections of the community, hence there's a lot of pussyfooting.
But back to the issue of gang rapes of non-hijab wearing muslim women in France:
Check out the "Ni Putes Ni Soumises" (Neither Whores nor Submissives) section of Wikipedia. Some of the HLMs (housing projects) are quite lawless areas...
"... Two high-profile cases gave a particular impetus to NPNS during 2003. The first was that of Samira Bellil who published a book called Dans l'enfer des tournantes ("In Gang Rape Hell") in which she recounts her life as a girl under la loi des cités (the law of the housing projects) where she was gang raped on more than one occasion, the first time at age 13, afraid to speak out, and ultimately seen only as a sexual object, alienated and shunned by her family and some of her friends..."
[source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_Putes_Ni_Soumises ]
I could put up loads more links, there's plenty of information out there.
You can google the issue if you like, and then come back to me with a decent argument when you've bothered to do your research
My source of information over the years about this issue is not FN, but I've read and heard about it through mainstream French media organisations when I lived there, and I've occasionally read about it in British broadsheets and also heard about it on Radio 4, and it's probably come up on bulletins like Channel 4 News... hardly well known organs for virulent racism, wouldn't you say?
But then you wouldn't know that, would you? Because I guess the plight of young French muslim girls being gang raped by their 'friends' and neighbours in their own communities would go under your radar, you're more interested in accusing people of white on non-white racism and assuming that someone who mentions a serious issue like this has got their information from FN, says a lot more about you and your prejudice than about me and mine.
For the record (and not that I should need to justify myself but because I feel I now *have* to - thank to you, cheers - to dissociate myself with such twisted motivations as you have incorrectly assumed: I'm a muslim woman. My knowledge about and interest in this issue is based on my concern for my muslim sisters.
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