Muslims in Europe and in the United States. A Transatlantic Comparison

Friday December 15, 2006 Panel One: Consequences of 9/11 on Muslims in Europe and in the United States: Legal and Political Aspects Chair/Discussant: Louise Richardson, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University   Europe: The Consequences of European Security Laws after 9/11 on Muslims in Europe Presenters: Jose Maria Ortuño Aix, University of Barcelona Didier Bigo, Institut d’Études Politiques,…

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    A Question of Identity

    When it comes to popular prejudice and state repression, the Muslim experience in the US does not seem to have differed much from the rest of the western world since September 11, 2001. Klein was pushing at an open door. A Gallup poll this summer showed that 39% of Americans supported a requirement for Muslims…

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      From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life

      By ANDREA ELLIOTT LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Tex. – Stomping her boots and swinging her bony arms, Fadwa Hamdan led a column of troops through this bleak Texas base. Only six months earlier, she wore the head scarf of a pious Muslim woman and dropped her eyes in the presence of men. Now she was…

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