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The French intifada: France and its Muslims

by Denis MacShane / June 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
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The Algerian pavilion at the 1900 Paris Exposition

After Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, Andrew Hussey’s The French Intifada—on France, its Muslim population and the challenge of Islamism—is the most interesting book about France to have been published in English for many years. Hussey runs the University of London institute in Paris. He is serious about France and the French. Like French political sociologists such as Alain Touraine, Michel Wieviorka or Gilles Kepel, he believes in getting out of his study and into the rough streets of the French banlieues.

Hussey writes down what he sees, hears and is told.  For example, he is not afraid to report the extraordinary levels of anti-semitism among France’s disaffected Arab and Muslim population. Most bien-pensant English writers gloss over the vitriolic Jew-hatred that informs Islamist ideology. Dislike of Netanyahu and Israel’s settlement policies blinds many to the extent to which anti-semitism has become entrenched as a core element of 21st-century ideology in much of the Arab and wider Muslim world.

The French Intifada is an unusual mixture of reportage and history. Its first three chapters on disaffected communities of North African origin in France are vivid journalism far removed from the sex scandals and boring Peter Mayle retreads that is the staple diet of most British writers and…

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  1. Rob Slack
    June 28, 2014 at 09:49
    " 5m Muslims in France compared to 2.5m in Britain and 3m (mainly Turks) in Germany" Maybe we should just give them Belgium.
  2. Philip Witriol
    June 30, 2014 at 10:57
    An excellent and trenchant piece but would dislike of Israel be enough to "blind bien-pensants to vitriolic Jew-hatred"?

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