2023-04-19 18:30:00
For Fatima Bent, co-president of Lallab, this digital campaign to fight against intra-community violence is a way to reclaim the subject. “It is often the law of silence. They cannot denounce the aggressions they suffer because they are told that they will betray the cause and that one does not wash their dirty linen in public, ”she explains to Radio France.
The association has collected around fifty testimonies from Muslim women on subjects such as incest, the wearing of the veil and related discrimination, or sexism experienced at the mosque. As part of this digital campaign, Lallab has already published some of these testimonials on its social networks, without revealing the identity of the women. Through this approach, the association wants to allow these women who are victims of intra-community violence to free their voices, because they are often not believed by those close to them.
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“What is needed for Muslim women to feel safe in mosques, in their families, to be invited to family dinners, without fear of being subjected to violence because they have spoken ? asks Fatima Bent as well.
Created in 2015, Lallab became known in the summer of 2017 after the publication on its social networks of an announcement for three civic service missions, which had provoked a wave of reactions from defenders of secularism and close to the extreme right who accused him of being too close to the promoters of radical Islam. A campaign of disinformation and harassment, had denounced the association.
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