A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire #223 - Against religions: Fight all systems of domination (fr) [machine translation]

If it is necessary to oppose the stigmatization of Muslims and Muslim Alternative 
libertarian wants to develop a battle against all forms of racism and against religious 
oppression. We give here the reasons. ---- We will not here the analysis of Pierre 
Tévanian about the rise of the current stigmatization of Muslims and Muslim. Alternative 
libertarian agrees with this analysis, especially when secularism or feminism are called 
in by the reaction to point the finger at people from North Africa and black Africa. --- 
Neither law nor sail! --- However, and this is what differentiates us from Pierre 
Tévanian, Alternative libertarian denouncing the trap women taken between contempt and 
Republican "tradition", which imposes the veil, the niqab sometimes symbols of domination 
on the body women.

We will never support any repressive legislation on these issues, because they repress 
women and they are part of a stigmatization of populations from former colonies. But we do 
not intend to silence our critics on the role that religions - all religions - assign women.

Religious ideologies are complex systems, recovering at a more or less significant 
elements "progressive" or "liberators". Regularly and religious institutions can serve as 
"place of organization" of subordinated groups. But the religions, all of which call for 
the subjugation against a deity superior to humanity, have been, are and will always be 
systems of domination.

Combat all forms of racism
Racism is a reality multiforme. Its aim is always to stigmatize part of the population. 
Through discrimination and violence symbolic and physical, it is to divide the mass 
fractions are dominated-antagonists. In Western Europe today, racism is the dominant 
pariah in the guise of vague "Muslim" and envelope the archetype of all the fears of 
Western society. But other forms of racism persist and sometimes get featured in the media 
system, against Roma, Jews, Asians, black people of Dom-Tom ... Racism is more colonial 
than ever. And we fight against racism must never cease to be global under penalty of 
being weakened.

In the end, our fight against all systems of domination we impose a complex position. We 
can not satisfy a posture where Islamophobia is the alpha and omega of the fight against 
racism. We can not mothball our criticism of religions, so also Islam, because a 
significant portion of these victims of racism, especially those from North Africa and 
black Africa, recognize this religion.

Criticize religions, believers meet
Say "theoretically" our comrades from North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa as they are they're 
French or not-or that they are Muslim or not-es are our equals and our equal is not 
enough. To make this a reality it is necessary to respect even when they do they are 
believing es.

It is this respect that allows progress in building a true exchange and solidarity beyond 
the divisions 'religious', and thus to understand - and share - the basis of our criticism 
of religions. Faced with the rise of the "religious" fight against racism finds its 
extension in a review of all systems of domination and in particular the traditions of 
domination over women and addiction archaic religion. We will never be complicit in a 
system of domination for another fight!

Jacques Dubart (AL Agen) and Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris North East)
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