On LCI, writer Abnousse Shalmani stigmatizes Muslim students without any basis

The racist and Islamophobic climate in France continues to grow, especially in the media. The latest controversy? A trip by the writer and journalist Abnousse Shalmani.

Muslim girls “forced” to do worse in school, really?

On the set of the show Pujada 24 hours a day on LCI on April 29, the columnist, invited to promote her book Secularism, I write your name (The Observatory, 2024)she launched into a monologue about immigrants of North African origin and Muslim culture.

In a monologue he states that according to “very serious studies” which he does not cite:

“Do you realize that the majority of North African Muslim girls are forced to do less well in school, to hold back from achieving good results, because if they do too well in school, their older brother, their parents, will tell them: ‘Do you think you’re white or what? Did you think you were French?’ »

Abnousse Shalmani

If on the board, David Pujadas and the MEP Bernardo Guetta embarrassed, he tries to tell him not to make generalizations, none of them ask him for his sourcesas can be seen below.

But Abnouse Shalmani insists: “ We have average girls, who hold back from being too good so as not to be rejected. You know, when you live in a closed community, the force of rejection is incredibly violent. And who wants to live like a plague victim in their own family, in their own street, in their own neighborhood, in their own community? »

A sequence that did not fail to be strongly denounced by X given the content of the observations. Starting with the journalist Mohamed Bouhafsiwho asks: ” Could we see “this very serious study”? “before continuing” desperate and so offensive to these millions of parents who have struggled to provide the best for their children “.

Very serious studies that seem not to exist. In Block imagesthe journalist of Humanity Rosa Moussaoui, who has worked on education and immigration issues, contradicts the writer. He recalls several studies “ which show that parents with little or no educational capital and modest income overinvest in school because they see it as the only possible social progress for their children. » Explain to our colleague: “ And in particular parents from North African immigration. Just consult the INSEE data! »

And for good reason, Block images listed several “serious studies » which also contradict the words of Abnousse Shalmani. Starting with an article by the sociologist Yaël Brinbaumpublished in 2022, titled “Aspirations and educational paths of children of immigrants through the prism of gender and origin: the advantage of girls “, which states: “With the same socio-family environment (M2), the level of aspirations of immigrant families exceeds that of French families of origin, towards girls and boys, with variations (…) Aspirations towards girls from the Maghreb and Asia appear particularly strong; those expressed for girls are higher than for boys (M2), except in Turkish and Portuguese families. “. No offense to the editorialists who base their stigmatization on nothing.

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