“Ignorance” or “political strategy”: the reaction of the founder of MolenGeek to the words of Conner Rousseau

The young entrepreneur, who is also an administrator at Proximus, is surprised by Conner Rousseau’s comments: “When I read her interview, she just showed me that Conner Rousseau did not know Brussels […] not Molenbeek, did not know this reality in Molenbeek. The fact of saying that there are courses that are given in Arabic… Among young people today, it is Arabic that is being lost. Our elders complain that our young people no longer speak Arabic because they speak more and more French or Dutch.” And to add that very good schools in Dutch exist in the town and that part of the population is bilingual… In short, the words of Conner Rousseau are “clichés” and “biases”.

And to continue: “We should perhaps explain to him that Belgium is not just the city of Saint-Nicolas (his birthplace where he lives, editor’s note). Brussels is the most diverse city in the world following Dubai. This is not Saint Nicholas”.