The month of Ramadan. The month of charity and peace, according to Muslims.
Ramadan, the month of selfishness, violence, intolerance and racism, according to non-Arab-Muslims.
The “restaurant du cœur”, a concept invented by the French comedian Coluche, according to the Islamic version:
A sub-Saharan tells us about the racism that reigns in the Algerian version of these restaurants of the heart. Racism under the aegis of the Algerian state, imams, and volunteers.
“I’ve just been almost attacked and thrown out by some organisers of Dar Errahma de Tobal (mercy), after asking why sub-Saharan children weren’t allowed to be in the queue with the other Algerians and at the table like everyone else.
The person in charge replied, ironically, simply that they were black, dirty and not Algerian, and that they had to wait until the end. Angry, I said that was racism and that they had no right to do that. Three employees tried to beat me up. Fortunately, a long-standing friend and other members of the public intervened to stop them.
Two of the employees caught up with me outside to apologise and to tell me that these were instructions from the wilaya (the state). Is this true? I don’t know. Shame on these racist organisers, who remind me of the films and documentaries about the apartheid era in South Africa. They were starving poor people, they were 15 years old. They were condemned because they were black. Shame on you, shame on you!”
Racism against sub-Saharans, and not just sub-Saharans, is a recurrent theme in Algerian society, which is ruled by Islamists.
We remember when the Algerian authorities rounded up people from southern countries. They stripped them of their belongings and abandoned them in the middle of the desert.
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The month of Ramadan. The month of charity and peace, according to Muslims.
