{"id":4826,"date":"2021-06-12T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T08:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2021-06-12T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T09:00:05","slug":"un-feminisme-musulman-2-0-we-all-can-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"Un f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0 : \u201cWe ALL can do it!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Par Malika Hamidi<\/p>\n<p>Ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, un int\u00e9r\u00eat croissant ne cesse de se manifester autour d\u2019un th\u00e8me incontestablement politique en Belgique : la politisation du corps des femmes musulmanes \u00e0 travers la visibilit\u00e9 du foulard dit \u00ab islamique \u00bb dans l\u2019espace public, et souvent consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un affront voire une menace pour les valeurs occidentales.<br \/>\nDepuis plus de 20 ans, les discussions toujours recommenc\u00e9es et non abouties sur la \u00ab politisation du voile \u00bb [1] \u00e9manent d\u2019une longue histoire dans la politique europ\u00e9enne. Le corps des femmes rel\u00e8ve d\u2019un champ de bataille en temps de crise, notamment dans le contexte actuel marqu\u00e9 par la pr\u00e9\u00e9minence du fait ethnique et religieux. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content instapaper_body\">\n<div id=\"para_1\" class=\"para_42328328 resize\">\n<div class=\"texte\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"not-responsive aligncenter\" title=\"Un f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0 : \u201cWe ALL can do it!\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lescahiersdelislam.fr\/photo\/art\/default\/57032573-42328337.jpg?v=1623415390\" alt=\"Un f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0 : \u201cWe ALL can do it!\u201d\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"access firstletter\">En effet, la question raciale et religieuse, \u00e9minemment politique, oriente les formes de mobilisations et d\u2019actions sociopolitiques des femmes dites \u00ab\u00a0racis\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb et de foi musulmane.<br \/>\nC\u2019est dans ce contexte politique post 11.9 d\u00e9l\u00e9t\u00e8re et exacerb\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019endroit de l\u2019islam que l\u2019on voit \u00e9merger un nouveau profil de femmes \u00e0 la fois f\u00e9ministes et musulmanes, dont la rh\u00e9torique d\u00e9routante, inqui\u00e9tante et pourtant inclusive va contester la normativit\u00e9 d\u2019une pens\u00e9e f\u00e9ministe dominante en Occident.Pourtant, c\u2019est bien cette identit\u00e9 de femmes \u00ab\u00a0hybrides\u00a0\u00bb et subversives qui inspire une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de musulmanes aujourd\u2019hui. Des femmes qui ont choisi d\u2019\u00eatre, autonomes et libres face \u00e0 un syst\u00e8me in\u00e9galitaire qui les minore, qu\u2019elles d\u00e9noncent et d\u00e9fient dans une d\u00e9marche critique, d\u00e9termin\u00e9e et dans la persistance du dialogue.D\u00e8s lors, elles s\u2019approprient une l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 sociale, politique et religieuse tout en faisant voler en \u00e9clat cette \u00ab\u00a0sagesse conventionnelle\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 laquelle on voudrait les assigner.<br \/>\nDans \u00ab\u00a0Un f\u00e9minisme musulman, et pourquoi pas\u00a0? [2]\u00a0\u00bb (pr\u00e9fac\u00e9 par Alain Gresh ) r\u00e9edit\u00e9 le 5 mars 2020, nous nous attachons d\u2019une part \u00e0 actualiser l\u2019histoire et la m\u00e9moire de ces mouvements, tout en revenant sur les enjeux politiques, religieux et conceptuels qu\u2019elles posent sur le terrain acad\u00e9mique, religieux et de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile.<br \/>\nD\u2019autre part, l\u2019ouvrage ambitionne de mettre en lumi\u00e8re celles et ceux qui portent cette lutte, et qui se sont appropri\u00e9 des espaces de contestation et de n\u00e9gociation des sph\u00e8res religieuses jusqu\u2019au sein des mouvements f\u00e9ministes dits <em>mainstream.<\/em><br \/>\nTout comme le f\u00e9minisme contemporain en Occident, les f\u00e9minismes musulmans sont travers\u00e9s par diff\u00e9rents courants de pens\u00e9e et portent un discours depuis des d\u00e9cennies. Mais ce n\u2019est que tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cemment que ces mouvements sont rendus visibles dans les m\u00e9dias\u00a0francophones au sein desquels r\u00e9sonnent les revendications de ces militantes d\u2019un nouveau genre. Au cours des derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies, elles apportent leur contribution \u00e0 cette r\u00e9volution et ce d\u00e9centrage th\u00e9orique et pratique, tout en amor\u00e7ant un virage sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent vers la diversit\u00e9.<br \/>\nCes derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, l\u2019appareillage conceptuel sous-jacent au f\u00e9minisme musulman a offert \u00e0 la pens\u00e9e f\u00e9ministe et \u00e0 chacune d\u2019entre nous la possibilit\u00e9 de s&rsquo;interroger sur ses propres angles morts. Il est incontestablement devenu l\u2019un des termes vedettes qui mobilisent au c\u0153ur des associations de femmes musulmanes, car il est plut\u00f4t d\u00e9politis\u00e9, proactif tout en permettant une approche non binaire et plut\u00f4t solidaire entre femmes d\u2019horizons divers, tout en restant en phase avec notre \u00e9poque empreinte d\u2019hybridit\u00e9s identitaires.Ces 5 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, nous assistons v\u00e9ritablement \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mergence d\u2019un post-f\u00e9minisme musulman qui s\u2019est traduit par la maturation politique et intellectuelle des femmes musulmanes sur le plan des id\u00e9es, et qui a ouvert de nouvelles fen\u00eatres d\u2019espoir dans cette qu\u00eate de libert\u00e9 au-del\u00e0 de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de mobiliser le r\u00e9f\u00e9rentiel religieux. Elles ne sont plus \u00ab\u00a0prisonni\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb de la pr\u00e9\u00e9minence de leur identit\u00e9 religieuse qui selon certaines polarisent et s\u2019engagent dans la promotion d\u2019un\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0\u00a0\u00bb qui s\u2019int\u00e9resse \u00e0 la solidarit\u00e9 intersectionnelle avant tout. Elles militent en faveur d\u2019un mouvement f\u00e9ministe plus inclusif et prometteur, reconnaissant la diversit\u00e9 constitutive des femmes par-del\u00e0 les fronti\u00e8res ethniques, religieuses, raciales et sexuelles.D\u00e9sormais, le f\u00e9minisme musulman est partout et accessible \u00e0 tous gr\u00e2ce aux nouvelles technologies et en particulier gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 internet. Nous sommes v\u00e9ritablement face \u00e0 une nouvelle vague \u00e9mancipatrice se r\u00e9clamant du 2.0. Les f\u00e9ministes musulmanes 2.0 promeuvent des syst\u00e8mes de communication ind\u00e9pendants et gagnent une v\u00e9ritable visibilit\u00e9 via les r\u00e9seaux sociaux et internet. Cette nouvelle forme d\u2019empowerment digitale et f\u00e9ministe permet de d\u00e9passer toutes formes de censure m\u00e9diatique, elles s\u2019autonomisent et ne d\u00e9pendent plus des m\u00e9dias mainstream qui ne leur accordent que peu de place dans leurs lignes \u00e9ditoriales. Ces activistes f\u00e9ministes musulmanes du d\u00e9but du 21<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> si\u00e8cle ont cr\u00e9\u00e9 ce f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0, moderne, audacieux et accessible \u00e0 tous hommes et femmes, musulmans ou pas.<br \/>\nAujourd\u2019hui, elles contribuent \u00e0 l\u2019histoire de la r\u00e9sistance des femmes, r\u00e9volutionnent la perception collective de l\u2019image st\u00e9r\u00e9otyp\u00e9e des femmes musulmanes et promeuvent une r\u00e9volution de la solidarit\u00e9. Un combat au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019appartenance religieuse, une d\u00e9politisation de la question des femmes musulmanes afin de repolitiser ce \u00ab\u00a0Nous les femmes\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve du temps et des identit\u00e9s et \u00e0 l\u2019aune d\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0F\u00c9MINISME MUSULMAN 2.0\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nFrantz FANON disait que \u00ab la grande confrontation ne pourra \u00eatre ind\u00e9finiment report\u00e9e \u00bb. Souhaitons que ce mouvement de femmes produise une confrontation salutaire d\u2019id\u00e9es et de croyances qui ouvrira des horizons d\u2019espoirs et de solidarit\u00e9 entre toutes femmes \u00e9prises de justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"para_2\" class=\"para_42328337 resize\">\n<div class=\"texte\">\n<div class=\"access firstletter\">\n<p>________________<\/p>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">[1]Fran\u00e7oise Lorcerie, dir.,\u00a0<em>la politisation du voile en France, en Europe et dans le monde arabe<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>Paris, \u00c9d. L&rsquo;Harmattan, 2005, 266<\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\">[2] Phrase d\u00e9sormais mythique de Christine DELPHY prononc\u00e9e le 4 f\u00e9vrier 2004 au Trianon lors d\u2019 une intervention dans le cadre du Collectif \u00a0\u00bb Une \u00e9cole pour toutes et tous\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo shadow bottom\">\n<h3 class=\"single_article_title\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/146000\/2-0-muslim-feminism-we-can-all-do-it\/\">2.0 Muslim feminism: \u201cWe can all do it\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div class=\"single_article_content\">\n<div class=\"single_opinion_time\">Tuesday, 22 December 2020<\/div>\n<div class=\"single_opinion_message\">This is an opinion article by an external contributor. The views belong to the writer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"toa_author too_author single_opinion_author\">\n<div class=\"col_1 ib\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col_9 ib\">\n<div class=\"toa_author_title s_toa_author_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/author\/malika-hamidi454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Malika Hamidi\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single_article_content\">\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">In recent years, there has been a growing interest in an undeniably political theme in Europe: the politicization of Muslim women\u2019s bodies through the visibility of the so-called \u201cIslamic\u201d headscarf in the public space, which is often considered an affront or even a threat to Western values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">As mentioned in my previous opinion piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/119513\/beyond-the\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Headscarf ban: Belgian Muslim women are resisting in order to free themselves<\/a>, and for more than 20 years now, the endlessly repeated and unsuccessful discussions on the \u201cpoliticization of the veil\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/146000\/2-0-muslim-feminism-we-can-all-do-it\/blank\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[1]<\/a> have had a long history in European politics. Women\u2019s bodies are a battleground in times of crisis, especially in the current context of ethnic and religious pre-eminence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Indeed, the racial and religious question, which is eminently political, guides the forms of mobilization and socio-political actions of so-called \u201cracialized\u201d women of the Muslim faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">In this deleterious and exacerbated post-9.11 political context towards Islam, a new profile of both feminist and Muslim women is emerging, whose confusing, disturbing and yet inclusive rhetoric will challenge the normativity of a dominant feminist thought in the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Yet this identity of \u201chybrid\u201d and subversive women indeed inspires a generation of Muslim women today: women who have chosen to be politically and religiously autonomous and free in the face of an unequal society that undermines them, whom they denounce and challenge in a critical, determined and persistent dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">From then on, they acquire social, political and religious legitimacy while shattering the \u201cconventional wisdom\u201d to which one would like to assign them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">In \u201cA Muslim feminism \u2013 and why not?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/146000\/2-0-muslim-feminism-we-can-all-do-it\/blank\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[2]<\/a> (preface by Alain Gresh), which was reissued last March 2020, we are committed to updating the history and memory of these movements, while returning to the political, religious and conceptual issues they raise in the academic, religious and civil society fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">On the other hand, the book aims to shed light on those who carry this struggle, and who have appropriated spaces for contestation and negotiation from the religious spheres to the so-called mainstream feminist movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Like contemporary feminism in the West, Muslim feminisms have been crossed by different currents of thought and have conveyed ideas for decades. However, it is only very recently that these movements have been made visible in the French-language media, where the demands of these activists of a new kind resonate. In recent decades, they have contributed to this theoretical and practical revolution and shift in focus, while at the same time initiating an unprecedented shift towards diversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">In recent years, the underlying conceptual framework of Muslim feminism has given feminist thought and each of us the opportunity to question our own blind spots. It has unquestionably become one of the fashion terms that mobilize the heart of Muslim women\u2019s associations, as it is rather (de)politicized and dynamic while allowing a non-binary and rather solidarity-based approach between women from different backgrounds, as well as remaining in tune with our era marked by identity hybridities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Over the last 5 years, we have truly witnessed the emergence of a Muslim post-feminism which has resulted in the political and intellectual maturation of Muslim women in terms of ideas, and which has opened new windows of hope in this quest for freedom beyond the need to mobilize the religious frame of reference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">They are no longer \u201cprisoners\u201d of the pre-eminence of their religious identity, which according to some polarizes and engages in the promotion of a \u201c2.0 Muslim feminism\u201d that is above all concerned with intersectional solidarity. They advocate for a more inclusive and promising feminist movement, recognizing the constitutive diversity of women across ethnic, religious, racial and gender boundaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Today, Muslim feminists in Europe are contributing to the history of women\u2019s resistance, revolutionising the collective perception of the stereotypical image of Muslim women and promoting a revolution of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">A struggle beyond religious affiliation, a depoliticization of the issue of Muslim women in order to repoliticize this \u201cUs, women\u201d in the face of time and identities and in the light of a \u201c2.0 MUSLIM FEMINISM\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\">Frantz FANON said that \u201cthe great confrontation cannot be postponed indefinitely\u201d. Let us hope that this movement of women will produce a salutary confrontation of ideas and beliefs that will open up horizons of hope and solidarity among all women who love justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/146000\/2-0-muslim-feminism-we-can-all-do-it\/blank\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[1]<\/a> Fran\u00e7oise Lorcerie, <em>La politisation du voile en France, en Europe et dans le monde arabe [Politicization of the veil in France, in Europe and in the Arab world]<\/em>, Paris, Ed. L\u2019Harmattan, 2005, 266<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify check\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinion\/146000\/2-0-muslim-feminism-we-can-all-do-it\/blank\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[2]<\/a> Sentence now mythical from Christine DELPHY, pronounced on February 4, 2004 at the Trianon during an intervention within the framework of the Collective \u201cA school for all boys and girls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"check\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par Malika Hamidi Ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, un int\u00e9r\u00eat croissant ne cesse de se manifester autour d\u2019un th\u00e8me incontestablement politique en Belgique : la politisation du corps des femmes musulmanes \u00e0 travers la visibilit\u00e9 du foulard dit \u00ab islamique \u00bb dans l\u2019espace public, et souvent consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un affront voire une menace pour les valeurs occidentales. &#8230; <a title=\"Un f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0 : \u201cWe ALL can do it!\u201d\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/?p=4826\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur Un f\u00e9minisme musulman 2.0 : \u201cWe ALL can do it!\u201d\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4,28],"tags":[251,249],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-islamophobie","category-racismes","tag-feminisme-decolonial","tag-malika-hamidi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruxelles-pantheres.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}