Blaming The Victims
The Algerian socialist-feminist Marieme Helie-Lucas responds to Deeya Khan's film Islam's Non-Believers , which was broadcast on ITV on 13 October. For the past three decades, we have been witnessing the implementation in politics of the concept of perversity in psychology. Truly, this is a case study. I first realised this during the “dark decade” in Algeria, in which around 200,000 people became victims, many of armed fundamentalist groups, with women constituting a large proportion. Following an inexorable process, these were the steps taken by the fundamentalists: targeted assassinations...