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July 12, 2026
Bought this spontaneously in a train station book shop primarily to find out how much French I am still able to understand. Turns out more than I thought which is great.
I really liked the texts but I wonder about the views of the editors of the book. While every text was great in itself and while we should definitely not take our eyes from the horrors these women have been facing (and that so many women are probably still facing to this day) I felt the editors had the mission to portray Islam as an inherently misogynistic religion practiced by hell workers. Ironically, it seemed as if they carry the same blind zeal against Islam in their heart as the Muslim men (and women) carry a blind hatred against women’s self determination.
It was interesting that almost none of the text addressed the discrimination that people with North African roots in France faced and face. Quite the contrary, the French Republic was implicitly portrayed as a beacon of light and progress. Despite the important focus on the familial life of French Muslim women of North African descent, the editors did not pick a text that describes these women’s interactions with the French state. Really bad editing here, would have expected more by a publishing house as luminous as Reclam.
Still, truly saddening to see how many lives are unnecessarily wasted by some uneducated, blindly traditional, low IQ men that use religion as a pretext for being shite humans (indeed, one of the last little texts made a similar point). Truly hoping that we can move on as humanity.
Still, some nice vocab in there.
I really liked the texts but I wonder about the views of the editors of the book. While every text was great in itself and while we should definitely not take our eyes from the horrors these women have been facing (and that so many women are probably still facing to this day) I felt the editors had the mission to portray Islam as an inherently misogynistic religion practiced by hell workers. Ironically, it seemed as if they carry the same blind zeal against Islam in their heart as the Muslim men (and women) carry a blind hatred against women’s self determination.
It was interesting that almost none of the text addressed the discrimination that people with North African roots in France faced and face. Quite the contrary, the French Republic was implicitly portrayed as a beacon of light and progress. Despite the important focus on the familial life of French Muslim women of North African descent, the editors did not pick a text that describes these women’s interactions with the French state. Really bad editing here, would have expected more by a publishing house as luminous as Reclam.
Still, truly saddening to see how many lives are unnecessarily wasted by some uneducated, blindly traditional, low IQ men that use religion as a pretext for being shite humans (indeed, one of the last little texts made a similar point). Truly hoping that we can move on as humanity.
Still, some nice vocab in there.
July 21, 2025
Kann man wirklich drauf verzichten. Habe nichts gelernt außer ein paar Vokabeln (vorallem über rohe Gewalt). Vorwort und sehr eindimensionale Wahl der Essays lässt nichts Gutes auf die Sicht des Kurators auf den Islam schließen.
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March 9, 2023enfin terminé :)
September 8, 2025
Recht einseitige Darstellung des Islams in Frankreich, aber die kurzen Geschichten sind fast alle recht gut zu lesen.
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