The report states that most instances of Islamophobia go unreported, and calls on nation-states and the international community to do more to tackle the structurally-ingrained phenomenon.
The French are more tolerant of Muslims than before, indicates a recent report by the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH). Muslims “remain, however, one of the least accepted minorities,” the Commission found. Admittedly, 81% of respondents believed that “French Muslims are French like anyone else,” and 82% said “it is necessary to allow…
Writing any type of survey book on Islam in Europe is not a task for the faint of heart. Islam’s long-term presence in Europe, combined with its myriad expressions and trajectories across the continent in modern history, makes such a project a daunting one. Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom…
The debate continues unabated: Is political Islam decipherable through the tenets of the Islamic tradition – or is it a tool of secular actors who shrewdly misuse religious references? Is it an expression of modernity, or a return to the past? Eschewing these dichotomies, Jocelyne Cesari demystifies the continuous process of interaction between secular and…
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…
