French colorblindness law perpetuates racial inequities that help ISIS recruit
Evidence
The disaffection and despair that riddled Saint-Denis and the other banlieues opened doors for the terror network, which was looking to make pawns out of people who were pummeled by poverty and overpoliced by the state. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 763 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
ISIS succeeded only eleven times, and the world saw the explosive lights of that evil recruitment campaign on the night of November 13, 2015. The world does not see or hear or read about the millions of failures ISIS met inside of those banlieues, and more importantly, the failures of the state to mitigate the existential despair and disaffection that prime its soil for terror recruitment. Those Muslims failed by the French state, and that ISIS failed to recruit, are victors invisible to the world. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 777 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: French colonial justice policy tried to stop Islam’s spread by grouping Africans by ethnicity; French veil laws institutionalize entwined stereotypes of weak women and violent men; Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886 (+4 more)
Related
- State neglect and overpolicing of banlieues made them ISIS recruiting grounds (similarity 0.89)
- French colorblind legal doctrine masks state-driven racial inequities that feed ISIS recruitment. (similarity 0.89)
- French colorblindness law masks state-driven racial inequities that feed extremism recruitment (similarity 0.86)
- ISIS recruitment in French banlieues failed millions of times against eleven successes (similarity 0.85)
- French law’s colorblindness coexists with pervasive raced policing and inequity. (similarity 0.81)
- ISIS recruited only eleven people in France despite mass disaffection (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- State neglect and overpolicing of banlieues made them ISIS recruiting grounds
#corroborates(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 763 - French veil laws institutionalize entwined stereotypes of weak women and violent men
#corroborates(0.60) - ISIS recruitment in French banlieues failed millions of times against eleven successes
#qualifies(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 777 - Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France
#expands(0.50) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886 - French colonial justice policy tried to stop Islam’s spread by grouping Africans by ethnicity
#expands(0.40) - Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics
#expands(0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 - Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group.
#corroborates(0.40)