"The way people look at us has changed": life in Europe for Muslim women
The storm caused by the ban on the burkini in more than 30 seaside municipalities in France has drowned the voice of Muslim women for which this full swimsuit was created.The New York Times wanted to know their opinion, and the answers - more than 1000 comments from France, from Belgium and elsewhere - far exceed the question of an outfit.
What has emerged was the portrait of the life of a Muslim, veiled or not, in places in Europe in which terrorism has put people in Cran.A French term has returned from dozens of times: "a fight", to live day after day.Many of them, born and raised in France, have expressed their confusion when they are told to go home.
Justice decisions have returned to the ban on the burkini - that of Nice, the same as this terrible attack was committed on July 14, was canceled last Thursday - but the debate is far from being closed.
"For years, we had to deal with bad looks and threats," said Taslima Amar, 30, teacher in Pantin, in the Paris suburbs."I was asked to go home (even if I'm already home)".Today, Ms. Amar says that she and her husband are looking to leave France.
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Laurie Abouzeir, 32, says that she plans to launch her own childcare business in her hometown of Toulouse, in the south of France, because it would allow her to wear her scarf, which is frowned upon andeven prohibited in certain workplaces.
A large number of women have written that this anti-Muslim bias intensified after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January 2015 and in Brussels, Paris and more recently in Nice.Halima Djalab Bouguerra, a 21-year-old student who lives in Bourg-en-Bresse in France, says that the change is older, he goes back to the murders committed by Mohammed Merah in the southwest of the country in 2012.
Ms. Bouguerra writes that "the way people look at us has changed.Languages are delusional.No one is afraid to tell a Muslim to go home '".
Here are some extracts from the comments we received.We present them here in a condensed and revised manner for more clarity.
