Comrade Xavi Tedó wrote a report on the impressions of the "Muslim community" of Ripoll that had this headline: "Sílvia Orriols doesn't want us to integrate, she wants us out of here". The subtitle read: "The Muslim community of Ripoll, disappointed with Junts for having distanced itself from the motion against the Catalan Alliance." The report featured Mohamed Bahloul, who was having tea in the Esperanza café, "meeting point for the Muslim community in Ripoll"; Bilal Elkasmi, president of the El Fath Association, which manages one of the two mosques; Rashid Elmarajie, a faithful who was leaving prayer, and Omar Elabdali, president of the Moroccan Youth Association of Ripollès.
The report unintentionally addressed the big question. The members of the "Muslim community" who expressed their opinion with their first and last names were only men, because I suppose there were no women. Years ago, when I wrote a report on immigrants locked in the churches of Barcelona demanding "papers for everyone"I found that those who were locked up were only men. And the women? Where were they locked up?
To me, religions –and religion It has nothing to do with origin– that remove women from the life of leisure and cover them up, de-objectifying them, alarm me slightly. In the last century, women have conquered many spaces such as the university, politics, sports... Well, one of the spaces that I am most proud of having conquered – and I hope it is not taken as a frivolity, because it is quite the opposite – are bars. Two decades ago it was not very normal for a woman to sit alone at the bar of a bar unless she was "a woman" gold-diggerNow it's something more normal. I've always done it and I always tell the women around me to do it, to go in alone and make a cocktail, a cortado, a glass of wine, a cup of this delicious tea, with those delicious pastries that they make in Moroccan bars.
