Fantazja i przemoc wyobraźni religijnej: islamofobia i antysemityzm we Francji i Afryce Północnej
The Fantasy and Violence of the Religious Imagination: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in France and North Africa

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to trace the changes in French anti-Islam rhetoric and to situate it in the broader context of the (post)colonial history of assimilation policies in France. The author sets out from the question of the relation between this violence and the formation of ethno-religious difference. He describes the changes in political and cultural identity within French Muslim communities. Contemporary Islamophobia, which is evident in the media as well as in state policy, is juxtaposed with anti-Semitic discourse, in which the question of assimilation plays an important role. The Islamophobic and anti-Semitic narratives concerning the prospects of assimilation are used to demarcate which ethnic groups may be included in the national community and which are seen as genuinely alien.

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