Small everyday humiliations of Muslims undermined any chance of integration
Evidence
Germaine Tillion had been particularly disturbed by the little alienating unfairnesses she observed — such as Muslims being subjected to the humiliations of personal frisking, while Europeans were tacitly exempt. Soustelle was also not helped when, playing to the pied noir gallery, Bourgès-Maunoury in a hard-line speech to the Algerian Assembly on 27 May promised that his government “will never look about for what are called interlocuteurs valables. I go still further; I claim that no national government after ours will be able to venture upon this path.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 363
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Thwarted assimilation reforms repeatedly converted Muslim hopes into despair; Everyday harassment from strangers makes Muslim American children internalize illegitimacy; Inclusive rhetoric naming Muslims simultaneously marked them as liminal outsiders. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 47 (+1 more)