Yaghoob Foroutan: New Zealand’s Muslim population along ethnic lines

In his article ‘Muslim Minority of New Zealand in Global Context; Demographic Perspective’ (in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (2017) 37(4) 511-518), Foroutan advocates a demographic and socio-economic study of New Zealand’s growing Muslim population that includes distinctions along lines of ethnic origin, rather than one that simply treats that section of the population as…

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Tariq Ramadan Affair: Let investigation run its course, leave Islam and Banlieue out

Tariq Ramadan might be seen as a voice for the voiceless among the Muslim and Arab youth in the banlieues, but it doesn’t make him their hero.

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Heinz-Christian Strache

Comparing Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: The State of the Field

An article by Farid Hafez, University of Salzburg, published in ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 3, NO. 2, Spring 2016, PP. 16-34. ABSTRACT In the European public discourse on Islamophobia, comparisons of antiSemitism and Islamophobia have provoked heated debates. The academic discourse has also touched on this issue, an example being the works of Edward Said, where…

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Tariq Ramadan’s interpretation of Pope Benedict XVI

* POPE BENEDICT XVI: SUMMING UP *CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS * Tuesday, 5 March 2013* It can only be hoped that the next pope will be better fitted to grasp the great issues of the day. Pope Benedict will not have left his mark on history quite as decisively as his predecessor, John Paul…

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Essay: Constructing the Self, Constructing the Other

In her essay US-Turkish philosopher Şeyla Benhabib criticises the current lack of any serious multicultural dialogue between the civilisations. Instead, European and US intellectuals continue to focus on “Islamo-fascism”, thereby blocking any constructive debate on Islam and migration in the West Last year marked the 50th Anniversary German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement, when Turkish guest-workers began to…

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