No no no no no no no

The racist institution is Charlie Hebdo. The article is suggesting vigilance against the use of this attack to advance the dangerous Islamophobia that has plagued the European ideological landscape for a couple years now.

And statist backlash does not mean backlash implemented by the state, or even necessarily supported by the same: the author just refers to backlash which suggests that a state response to the "Muslim problem" in France is warranted, which position has been increasingly prevalent in the French political arena of late. This does not mean a manhunt; clearly the perpetrators of this violence ought to be punished. This refers rather to the use of this event for the justification of policies which disenfranchise, oppress or disproportionately (negatively) effect French Muslims generally.

I'm going to pretty much ignore the next couple paragraphs you write because they're not particularly relevant to the article, which only suggests that racist publications ought not to be supported, not that they should or shouldn't be allowed to operate. But yeah, this isn't a discussion of institutionalised racism necessary, it's a preemptive criticism of the use of this tragedy to justify Islamophobic ideologies which call for state response to some sort of "Muslim problem" that too many Europeans believe exists in France and elsewhere.

Oh look, the response this article preempted totally happened

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