Why are French protesters chanting ‘Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres’?
- EXPLAINERFor students, the slogan has come to represent a whole array of grievances that lie at the heart of the protest movement.
- As violent protests roil France, bringing together students demanding better educational conditions and groups rejecting the high cost of living, one chant has become an improbable rallying cry: “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres”.
- The unofficial slogan does not mean much taken literally, but students have channelled a whole array of grievances that lie at the heart of the protest movement into this nonsensical expression.
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- EXPLAINERFor students, the slogan has come to represent a whole array of grievances that lie at the heart of the protest movement.
- As violent protests roil France, bringing together students demanding better educational conditions and groups rejecting the high cost of living, one chant has become an improbable rallying cry: “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres”.
- The unofficial slogan does not mean much taken literally, but students have channelled a whole array of grievances that lie at the heart of the protest movement into this nonsensical expression.
Sources: Al Jazeera