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Muslims in Western Politics
Edited by Abdulkader H. Sinno
Published by: Indiana University Press
320 Pages, 5 figures
- eBook
- 9780253002808
- Published: October 2008
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Looking closely at relations between Muslims and their host countries, Abdulkader H. Sinno and an international group of scholars examine questions of political representation, identity politics, civil liberties, immigration, and security issues. While many have problematized Muslims in the West, this volume takes a unique stance by viewing Muslims as a normative, and even positive, influence in Western politics. Squarely political and transatlantic in scope, the essays in this collected work focus on Islam and Muslim citizens in Europe and the Americas since 9/11, the European bombings, and the recent riots in France. Main topics include Muslim political participation and activism, perceptions about Islam and politics, Western attitudes about Muslim visibility in the political arena, radicalization of Muslims in an age of apparent shrinking of civil liberties, and personal security in politically uneasy times.
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Western Muslim Minorities, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
Part 1. Western Muslims and Established State-Religion Relations
2. Claiming Space in America's Pluralism: Muslims Enter the Political Maelstrom, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Robert Stephen Ricks
3. The Practice of Their Faith: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, by J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer
4. Religion, Muslims, and the State in Britain and France: From Westphalia to 9/11, by Jorgen S. Nielsen
Part 2. Western Muslims and Political Institutions
5. Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
6. Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations after 9/11, by Jytte Klausen
7. Muslims in UK Institutions: Effective Representation or Tokenism? by Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari
Part 3. Institutional Underpinnings of Perceptions of Western Muslims
8. How Europe and Its Muslim Populations See Each Other, by Jodie T. Allen and Richard Wike
9. Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use, by Erik C. Nisbet, Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan
10. The Racialization of Muslim Americans, by Amaney Jamal
Part 4. Western Muslims, Civil Rights, and Legal Institutions
11. Canadian National Security Policy and Canadian Muslim Communities, by Kent Roach
12. Counterterrorism and the Civil Rights of Muslim Minorities in the European Union, by Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
13. The Preventive Paradigm and the Rule of Law: How Not to Fight Terrorism, by David Cole
14. Recommendations for Western Policy Makers and Muslim Organizations, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
List of Contributors
Index
Abdulkader H. Sinno is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond.
"This study, a compilation of papers submitted to a September 2005 Indiana University conference, explores the political impact that the growing Muslim minorities in Western Europe and North America have on their host societies. In addition to editor Abdulkader Sinno's introduction and conclusion, the volume contains 12 chapters organized under four broad themes: background studies of different Western countries' Muslim minorities; their representation and integration in the hosts' political system; Western public opinion toward Muslim immigrants; and the post-9/11 era's implications for majority-minority relations. While Sinno cites the Canadian approach with approval, he portrays an often fraught relationship between Western states and their Muslim citizens, and offers a broad range of suggestions for both communities to move towards a genuinely tolerant and integrated society. (HK)"
~Hobie Kropp, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL
"The volume edited by Sinno (Indiana Univ., Bloomington) includes 14 chapters examining state policies toward Muslims, public perception of Muslims, and Muslim political participation in Western (mainly North American and west European) countries. The contributors employ the term 'Muslim' in broadest sense, from a religious affiliation to a cultural or ethnic identity. The book is a combination of social scientific analysis and policy recommendations. Several chapters are critical of Islamophobia and illiberal state policies toward Muslims, in addition to being critical of radical views among Muslims. Some chapters employ in-depth interviews while others use survey data, which leads to the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. The book would be enriched if it included deeper textual analyses of major Islamic publications, political documents, and court decisions. Nielsen's chapter, which argues a similarity between French and British policies toward Muslims, neglects the 2004 law on the headscarf ban in France. Soper and Fetzer's and Sinno's chapters include significant comparative analysis, while those of Haddad and Ricks and of Cole are important to understand the US case. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. —Choice"
~A. T. Kuru, Columbia University
"Provides a key comparison of the strategies implemented by various Western nations to deal with issues of cultural pluralism and the challenges of protecting their populations from terrorism."
~Caitlin Killian, Drew University