Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh comments on Charlie Hebdo, one year on

Sudhir Hazareesingh has been quoted in an article for Oxford Today (1 January) exploring the aftershocks of the attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.

Sudhir comments on the French law that forbids the gathering of statistics referring to racial or ethnic orgin, saying, "The way forward would be to have ethnic statistics – you just have to say that with freedom there will be some excesses but the overwhelming effect would be positive. They would stop talking in these abstract, schematic ways. They would be able to know how many Muslims there are and be able to legally ask through them through polling and proper sociological enquiries what they feel and what they think, what their social practices are and how French they really are. All the things we kind of know intuitively could come out into the open."

The full article can be read here: http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/opinion/charlie-hebdo-one-year