Sam Cherribi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199734115
- eISBN:
- 9780199866113
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734115.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This book exposes the “trifecta of coercion”—the triple pressures of Muslim orthodoxy’s expectations for individuals, Dutch—and European, in general—expectations for immigrants, and the individual’s ...
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This book exposes the “trifecta of coercion”—the triple pressures of Muslim orthodoxy’s expectations for individuals, Dutch—and European, in general—expectations for immigrants, and the individual’s day to day challenges which are complicated by his identity as a Muslim immigrant in a non-Muslim culture, or, as the imams call it, “in the house of war.” The trifecta of coercion, a cultural dynamic identified by the book, acts as a pulverizing machine that destroys the individual who happens to be Muslim and reconstitutes him or her as someone who is only a part of a larger, alienated, monolithic entity, in this case the so-called “Muslim threat.” These developments are marked by transformative trends and pivotal events along the road to the position of Islam in the Netherlands at the start of the 21st century. These trends and events include the introduction of Muslim guest workers in the 1960s and 1970s; the appointment of, first, uneducated imams and, later, more radical imams to European mosques in the 1990s; the emergence of Abu Jahjah in neighboring Belgium; the rise of Pim Fortuyn; the terrorist attacks on former New Amsterdam on Sept. 11, 2001; Fortuyn’s assassination in May 2002 followed by the celebrity of Hirsi Ali, the murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004, and the anti-Muslim immigration campaign of Geert Wilders. The author’s own rich life and its Muslim-influenced, secular European structure underpins every page of a scholarly examination of the very personal realities of Muslim immigration in EuropeLess
This book exposes the “trifecta of coercion”—the triple pressures of Muslim orthodoxy’s expectations for individuals, Dutch—and European, in general—expectations for immigrants, and the individual’s day to day challenges which are complicated by his identity as a Muslim immigrant in a non-Muslim culture, or, as the imams call it, “in the house of war.” The trifecta of coercion, a cultural dynamic identified by the book, acts as a pulverizing machine that destroys the individual who happens to be Muslim and reconstitutes him or her as someone who is only a part of a larger, alienated, monolithic entity, in this case the so-called “Muslim threat.” These developments are marked by transformative trends and pivotal events along the road to the position of Islam in the Netherlands at the start of the 21st century. These trends and events include the introduction of Muslim guest workers in the 1960s and 1970s; the appointment of, first, uneducated imams and, later, more radical imams to European mosques in the 1990s; the emergence of Abu Jahjah in neighboring Belgium; the rise of Pim Fortuyn; the terrorist attacks on former New Amsterdam on Sept. 11, 2001; Fortuyn’s assassination in May 2002 followed by the celebrity of Hirsi Ali, the murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004, and the anti-Muslim immigration campaign of Geert Wilders. The author’s own rich life and its Muslim-influenced, secular European structure underpins every page of a scholarly examination of the very personal realities of Muslim immigration in Europe
Sam Cherribi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199734115
- eISBN:
- 9780199866113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734115.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter examines the opinions of Islamic religious leaders based on a sample of 90 sermons in on contested social issues in Dutch mosques during the early 1990s. The chapter’s analytical ...
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This chapter examines the opinions of Islamic religious leaders based on a sample of 90 sermons in on contested social issues in Dutch mosques during the early 1990s. The chapter’s analytical approach takes into account the personal characteristics, life histories, and the power of the imams in the context of the politics of their mosques, as well as how the Muslim communities are in fact confronted with a new interpretation of Islam in Europe, in which the imam is the holder of symbolic capital. He defines the normative rules of behavior. Moroccan imams in Amsterdam generally stayed away from using the word integration and instead used the term cohabitation or coexistence. They consequently prompted parents to send their children to exclusive Islamic schools. The number of such schools multiplied during the mid-1990s.Less
This chapter examines the opinions of Islamic religious leaders based on a sample of 90 sermons in on contested social issues in Dutch mosques during the early 1990s. The chapter’s analytical approach takes into account the personal characteristics, life histories, and the power of the imams in the context of the politics of their mosques, as well as how the Muslim communities are in fact confronted with a new interpretation of Islam in Europe, in which the imam is the holder of symbolic capital. He defines the normative rules of behavior. Moroccan imams in Amsterdam generally stayed away from using the word integration and instead used the term cohabitation or coexistence. They consequently prompted parents to send their children to exclusive Islamic schools. The number of such schools multiplied during the mid-1990s.
