A Muslim is very familiar with this structure. The function of a ritual is to change the self, rather than to change the world. Therefore what emerges from a protest march are hundreds and thousands of slightly more politically conscious and organisationally connected people. The headlines, the media attention, the level of pressure on officials, is a bonus.
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In Johnny Pitts' Afroeuropean, we see a new multiracial class in formation. This new Europe - Afroeurope, Muslim Europe, World Europe - shows the possibilities of a continental wide solidarity between the oppressed, the dispossessed, the mustadaefeen of Paris, Warsaw and Berlin.