Abstract

The terrorist attacks of January 2015 in Paris prompted intense public debates concerning the relationship between Muslims and core elements of French republican values such as free speech and laïcité. The voices of Muslims themselves were heard relatively little in French media coverage of these matters. Drawing on a sociological study of eight second-generation members of an Algerian immigrant family, this article shows how their first-hand testimony illustrates the diversity of attitudes among French Muslims. Female members of the family who had built successful careers participated in the huge January 11 rally condemning the terrorist attacks and supporting free speech. Brothers with poorer employment records expressed more cynical attitudes, including in some cases supporting the claim that Charlie Hebdo journalists had been “asking for it” by publishing highly provocative cartoons which many Muslims considered to be Islamophobic. A sister working as an employment counsellor in a disadvantaged multi-ethnic banlieue with high levels of unemployment recounted how the disaffected and in some cases increasingly unhinged attitudes displayed in recent years by those she was charged with helping resembled those of the young men who had perpetrated the jihadist attacks of January 2015.

摘要

2015 年 1 月巴黎恐怖袭击引发了关于穆斯林与言论自由和世俗等法国共和价值观核心要素之间关系的激烈公开辩论。在法国媒体对这些问题的报道中，穆斯林本身的声音相对较少。本文借鉴对阿尔及利亚移民家庭八名第二代成员的社会学研究，展示了他们的第一手证词如何说明法国穆斯林态度的多样性。事业有成的家庭女性成员参加了 1 月 11 日的大型集会，谴责恐怖袭击并支持言论自由。就业记录较差的兄弟表达了更多愤世嫉俗的态度，包括在某些情况下支持这样的说法：《查理周刊》记者发表高度挑衅性的漫画是“自找的”，许多穆斯林认为这些漫画是仇视伊斯兰的。一位在失业率较高的多民族郊区担任就业顾问的修女讲述了近年来她所负责帮助的人所表现出的不满态度，有时甚至是越来越精神错乱的态度，这与那些犯下这些罪行的年轻人非常相似。 2015 年 1 月的圣战袭击。