This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down…
Trotz der Einigung in der gro_en Koalition bleibt das Antidiskriminierungsgesetz ein Zankapfel zwischen Union und SPD. Einige unionsregierte Bundesl_nder kritisieren die Pl_ne der Regierung f_r das “Gleichbehandlungsgesetz” so massiv, da_ SPD-Generalsekret_r Hubertus Heil ein Machtwort von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) verlangt. Der Geltungsbereich des Zivilrechts geht nun _ber die Vorgaben von Br_ssel hinaus – so…
The leader of the world’s largest Muslim body criticized the European Union on Friday for what he described as an unsatisfactory response to the furor over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said that by simply regretting that Muslims found the…
The European Union has backed Denmark in the row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, but leaders of its legislature differed over the limits of free speech. The cartoons, first published in Denmark, caused outrage in the Muslim world, and Danish and other European diplomatic missions have been attacked in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan and…
By Jan Olsen The Danish editor at the centre of the prophet caricature furore has been sent on indefinite leave after a disagreement with management about whether their newspaper should also print cartoons of the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten who commissioned the original 12 cartoons last year, has defended the decision…
