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The Alarming Intensification and Globalization of Islamophobia |

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No working definition of Islamophobia for the UK Government: Implications and Reactions |

French muslim intellectuals criticize Obama’s hijab statement

June 2, 2010June 6, 2010 researcher

In his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech, U.S. President Barack Obama emphasized that Muslim women in the U.S. are free to don the hijab. Obama’s statements triggered strong criticism among Arab intellectuals in France.. Reformist writer Abdelwahab Meddeb, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X in Nanterre and author of The

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Two new books out in France: profession imam and pari de civilization

December 7, 2009December 7, 2009 researcher

Tareq Oubrou, imam in Bordeaux, has published a new book on his vision of “Occidental Islam” in Profession Imam (Albin Michel, 2009). Raised in Morocco in a non-practicing family, fifty-year old Oubrou claims that this Islam is capable of secularization theologically-speaking. He advocates a “minority Shariah” adapted to French laicite, wherein in the Western world

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