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By Sam Cherribi

ISBN-10: 0199734119

ISBN-13: 9780199734115

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who grew to become a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament. during this e-book he attracts on his own studies with ecu politics and media, broad fieldwork in Dutch mosques, and interviews with imams. in recent times, the Netherlands has been swept via an identical forces of switch that experience swept the remainder of Europe - the consolidation of the eu Union, a big inflow of Muslim immigrants and the emerging voice of Islamic fundamentalism. Cherribi argues that this small nation has amplified those forces, delivering an invaluable lens by which to ascertain developments in all of Europe. The portents are troubling, he notes, as evidenced through the murders of journalist Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, and then riots broke out, mosques have been burned, and Muslims have been overtly reviled via the general public and the media. Cherribi used to be voted out of Parliament within the anti-migrant fervor that engulfed the Netherlands after those murders and prefer many different Dutch Muslims he emigrated to the USA. on reflection on those occasions, and bringing to undergo his abilities and coaching as a sociologist, Cherribi presents a useful account of 1 country's come upon with one of the most troubling developments of our instances.

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This aspect of the transition to the euro had been reviewed and discussed well in advance, but what had never been fully anticipated was the emotional impact, the feeling that the Dutch were being expected to give up their identity for something vague, a sort of European 24 IN THE HOUSE OF WAR nonidentity. There was no central rallying point or concept to the European Union; there was no one shared ideology; there was nothing, as far as most citizens could see beyond a hoped-for economic advantage in the form of shared currency.

The exchange of national monetary denominations for the euro is a metaphor for the exchange of national cultures for the nonspecific culture of the European Union. ” At the very time that the void of the EU nonidentity yawned open, and perhaps as a result of that void, Europe’s Muslim population, with its very distinct identity, became more visible than ever before. With the Dutch, the French, the Germans, and the others feeling as though they were losing themselves, the newly emerging Muslim identity became amplified and appeared to be a greater threat than might have otherwise been the case.

It occurred to me that a scene like this would probably not be tolerated on the campus of a European university. S. presidents have an even more integrated connection between the secular and the religious. 11 President George W. Bush, whose public image is at least partly entwined with America’s religious right, has made a point of reaching out to the country’s Islamic community and, when put on the spot regarding his religion, usually demurs by saying only that he believes in God and prays for guidance.

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