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As Yasser Louati has argued, the aim of much state-led discrimination and media-fuelled hatred is to exclude Mus- lims, especially Muslim women..
Joseph Paris by Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar
Interview
A new documentary from France addresses image manipulation and political power.Yasser Louati is a French political analyst and head of the Committee for Justice & Liberties (CJL).
August 22, 2023
Joseph Paris’s experimental and political documentary The Flag (2023) reflects on the aftermath of the 2015 Paris attacks in France. Since then, anti-Muslim sentiment has become mainstream while state power grows unchecked.
Guided by French civil rights activist Yasser Louati, Paris unpacks decades of political and media discourse which have led to the worrisome present-day situation in France. Beyond the immediate question of racism and Islamophobia, the film examines how media-driven narratives are used to generate or amplify the perception of a threat, which political leaders use in turn to justify the restriction of civil liberties.
I can’t help but hear echoes of Martin Niemöller’s “First they came…” in Yasser Louati’s incessant warnings that repressive tactics employed against Muslim minorities can and will be