...Jytte Klausen Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 Jy tte Klausen is professor of comparative politics a t Brandeis University and the author o f The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press). Europe’s Muslim Political Elite...

...Marvin Howe This outreach to the Muslim minority is only one chapter in the ongoing saga of the ambivalent attitudes of Iberians toward Islam and their own Islamic heritage. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, many Spaniards and even some Portuguese regard...

...Elisabeth Zerofsky Journalist and translator Elisabeth Zerofsky introduces her deft translation of author Kamel Daoud’s essay on sex in the Muslim world. Daoud’s piece provoked a media frenzy when it was published in France earlier this year. Everyone, including the French prime minister, seemed...

...Hisham Aidi France, which has long prided itself on providing refuge to African-American artists and dissidents, has found it much easier to support minority agitation abroad than at home. Hisham Aidi shows how Muslim youth in France are looking to the Black Power movement in the U.S...

... of a broader initiative to demonize Muslims and create an alternate history of terrorist threat in America. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Donald Trump propaganda Uzbekistan Islam Karimov LOCO STEVE LOCO STEVE Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to Donald Trump, told MSNBC’s...

...Abby Seiff An insurgency has consumed much of southern Thailand. Since 2004, almost 7,000 have been killed and more than 12,000 wounded as Malay Muslims push for greater autonomy. Journalist Abby Seiff describes the Thai government's brutal security tactics and investigates what's sustaining...

... Mira Kamdar I will not buy anything from any Muslim to the eradication of smallpox. Even our shopkeeper parents’ “mixed marriage”— my mother is I will not use those traitors’ hotels or Danish American—was to be understood their garages...

.... This decontex- ical Islam.1 There is, however, one widely tualizing of Islam allows Islamists in theory shared ingredient in the mix referred to as to ignore the social, economic, and political political Islam that may be responsible for milieus within which Muslim communities projecting a monolithic...

... and placed Muslim men have been detained in the in internment camps, where they were ripe crackdown on illegal immigrants that fol­ 16 WORLD POLICY JO URNAL • FALL 2004 lowed the 9/11 attacks.6 In Europe, while only 20 percent...

... less dependent on a single leader and is quite ecumenical. “I’m a Hindu; my number two is a Muslim.” We ventured an offbeat question. We had been told Keralite Communists consulted astrologers to determine auspicious dates for important decisions. Is this true? A nervous buzz passes through the room...

... priest!” In another veiled incitement to sectarian tension, the priest proclaims, “everyone, irrespective of religion, can come to Varanasi, but only Muslims are allowed in Mecca and Medina. This is the century of Hindutva, not just in India but in the entire world.” In invoking Hindutva...

.... tions from God. They wish to return to a “I am not guilty, you are guilty!” snapped way of life within the Sunni tradition simi­ some of the prisoners. “Jihad is not guilt,” lar to that of the early Muslim community, shouted another. “Is jihad in the way of Al­ basing their lives...

... murderous attacks on the two Tartar Muslim leaders quickly and bluntly. In August, President Minnikhanov signed new laws that included a ban on foreign nationals establishing religious groups and required foreign educated imams to have a Russian-certified diploma before teaching. But by openly favoring...

... year as viceroy of India, he A melancholy forgotten casualty has won London’s approval for slicing Bengal been the Red Shirts, a nonviolent, demo­ into two provinces: East Bengal, comprising cratic, and secular liberation movement that 18 million Muslims and 12 million Hindus, once...

... future. So the idea of Islamic futures is that communities must take responsibility for thinking about the future. What would be a viable, dynamic future for Muslim society based on justice and equity, and the basic principles of Islam, what would that future look like? To develop some sort of vision...

... restricted to the Muslim world. The Catholic Church found a new visibility under the leadership of John Paul II, shaking the communist grasp on Eastern Europe. Millions of converts from Catholicism to Protestantism are reshaping domestic politics in Brazil and other Latin America countries. Conversions from...

... in the global and vitality. Yet, Cohen does bring alive the war on terror is a nuclear armed state occu­ tension between the idea and reality. The pying the international spotlight. Because it idea that Muslims were a separate nation is so important, those who need Pakistan that must have a homeland...

... initially being dazzled by the glitz of Western life, she experiences an existential crisis that leads her to embark on a global search for true spirituality. She doesn’t find it anywhere. Khaula is deep in a pit of desolation when she encounters a teacher, a pious Muslim woman who guides her religious...

... that for a thousand years India gality of our long years of living in sin with has been a single cultural unit that absorbed the English.” all its invaders, and that Muslims, Chris­ That was in the time of Jawaharlal Neh­ tians, Sikhs, and Buddhists are all converts ru...

... Muslim diaspora, temporarily contained by U.S. and European mostly of Pakistani origin, who provided it diplomacy but could flare up again at any with funds and foot soldiers. After an attack moment. Are there more durable means of on New Delhi’s historic Red Fort in De­ containing this 50...