In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed (Religion and by Sam Cherribi PDF

By Sam Cherribi

ISBN-10: 0199734119

ISBN-13: 9780199734115

ISBN-10: 0199971854

ISBN-13: 9780199971855

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who turned a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament. during this booklet he attracts on his own reports with eu politics and media, vast fieldwork in Dutch mosques, and interviews with imams. lately, the Netherlands has been swept through an analogous forces of swap that experience swept the remainder of Europe - the consolidation of the ecu Union, a big inflow of Muslim immigrants and the emerging voice of Islamic fundamentalism. Cherribi argues that this small kingdom has amplified those forces, offering an invaluable lens in which to envision developments in all of Europe. The portents are troubling, he notes, as evidenced by means of the murders of journalist Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, and then riots broke out, mosques have been burned, and Muslims have been brazenly reviled through 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 stumble upon with the most troubling tendencies of our times.

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