During Ramadan, the feminist and anti-racist Muslim organisation Lallab launched a digital campaign on March 27 to combat violence within the community. A way to anonymously spread the messages of Muslim women who are addressing issues that are still taboo.
“It is often the law of silence. They can’t report the assaults they are subjected to because they are told that they would betray the cause and that you don’t wash your dirty linen in public.”
Lallab has collected around 50 testimonies that talk about incest, women wearing headscarves who feel stigmatised by their own families, or sexism experienced in the mosque. Some have already been published anonymously on their social networks and the violence of the reports shows that there is an urgent need for action. Above all, the organisation tries to create spaces for conversations, as the victims are not always being believed in their environment.
“What does it take for Muslim women to feel safe in mosques and in their families, to be invited to family dinners without fear of experiencing violence because they said something? “, Fatima Bent wonders.
These statements will be used to organise the counter-offensive, because Lallab, is also a place of mobilisation for Muslim women, available all year round. They organise self-defence courses as well as training. Le Mouv’