• Immigration and Integration

    New book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Featured, Featured Publication, Gender Issues and the Hijab/Burqa, Germany, Immigration and Integration

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    “The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnography Study” by Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen About the book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation...

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    On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Issues in Politics, United Kingdom

    Anne Norton rejects the ‘clash of civilisations’ view of Islam and the west, but offers little to replace it. Lawrence Rosen is the author of Varieties of Muslim Experience and The Culture of Islam offers the review of Anne Norton’s new publication On the Muslim Question.   Anne Norton thinks that the “Muslim question”...

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    UK Independence Party Member Suspended for Anti-Muslim Comments

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Immigration and Integration, Issues in Politics, United Kingdom

    7 May 2013   Tony Nixon, a UK Independence Party (UKip) member from Guisborough who canvassed nearly 800 homes for the party in the most recent election, has been suspended by the UKip for allegedly posting anti-Muslim material on his Facebook page. Mr. Nixon’s page contained a number of anti-Muslim jokes advocating the destruction...

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    Muslims pose no ‘threat’ to Switzerland

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Featured Europe, Featured Publication, Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Issues in Politics, Mosques and Community Centers, Publications, Reports and WPs, Switzerland

    Following the controversial debate on integration and assimilation of Islam in Switzerland, which led to the legal passing of a right-wing initiative of the populist SVP party against the construction of minarets in the country in 2009, three postulates requested to urgently obtain further information upon the state of affair of the Muslim community...

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