In recent years, the Netherlands has been swept by the same forces of change that have swept the rest of Europe - the consolidation of the European Union, a massive influx of Muslim immigrants and the rising voice of Islamic fundamentalism. Cherribi argues that this small country has amplified these forces, providing a useful lens through which to examine trends in all of Europe; he particularly examines the murders of journalist Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, after which riots broke out, mosques were burned, and Muslims were openly reviled by the public and the media. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Confessions: The Composite Relationship of the Secular and the Religious; 1.: The Established and the Outsiderof the European Integration; 2.: Immigration without Integration; 3.: How Europe's Secularism became Contentious: Mosques, Imams, and Issues; 4.: Prisonersof the mosque; 5.: Pim Fortuyn versus Islam: Muslims, Gays and the Media's Reliance on Conflict; 6.: The Public Intellectual versus Islam: A Year of Sex and Rhetoric; 7.: Riding Pim's Wave: Islam, Women, the Sacred, and the Naked; Conclusion: The Vanishing Muslim Individual; Endnotes; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973411-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés