It was January 14, on the antenna of France Inter. The excerpt, shared hundreds of thousands of times on the internet, made an impression. Léa Salamé herself could not believe her ears. That morning, his guest, Ismaël Saidi, who had come to present his book,
Like a Muslim in France (Éditions Autrement),
refused to take on the role of victim that seemed to be assigned to him. “
I've known that so much, growing up with this music that tells you 'they' don't like us, 'they' don't want 'us'. You grow up in this kind of slump, and that's what kills you
"... The journalist tried to cut him off:"
You are all the same obliged to recognize that when one is called Mohammed, it is more difficult to find a job? "
The answer, however, was not what we expected.
The Belgian essayist and director of Moroccan origin recalled, on the contrary, that if discrimination could exist, far from being "
the norm
", it was "
an exception
".
And to conclude: "
The problem,
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