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Book SynopsisFocusing on relations between Muslims and their host countries, this book examines questions of political representation, identity politics, civil liberties, immigration, and security issues.
Trade ReviewThis study, a compilation of papers submitted to a September 2005 Indiana University conference, explores the political impact that the growing Muslim minorities in Western Europe and North America have on their host societies. In addition to editor Abdulkader Sinno's introduction and conclusion, the volume contains 12 chapters organized under four broad themes: background studies of different Western countries' Muslim minorities; their representation and integration in the hosts' political system; Western public opinion toward Muslim immigrants; and the post-9/11 era's implications for majority-minority relations. While Sinno cites the Canadian approach with approval, he portrays an often fraught relationship between Western states and their Muslim citizens, and offers a broad range of suggestions for both communities to move towards a genuinely tolerant and integrated society. (HK)
-- Hobie Kropp * MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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1. An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Western Muslim Minorities, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
Part 1. Western Muslims and Established State-Religion Relations
2. Claiming Space in America's Pluralism: Muslims Enter the Political Maelstrom, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Robert Stephen Ricks
3. The Practice of Their Faith: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, by J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer
4. Religion, Muslims, and the State in Britain and France: From Westphalia to 9/11, by Jorgen S. Nielsen
Part 2. Western Muslims and Political Institutions
5. Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
6. Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations after 9/11, by Jytte Klausen
7. Muslims in UK Institutions: Effective Representation or Tokenism? by Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari
Part 3. Institutional Underpinnings of Perceptions of Western Muslims
8. How Europe and Its Muslim Populations See Each Other, by Jodie T. Allen and Richard Wike
9. Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use, by Erik C. Nisbet, Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan
10. The Racialization of Muslim Americans, by Amaney Jamal
Part 4. Western Muslims, Civil Rights, and Legal Institutions
11. Canadian National Security Policy and Canadian Muslim Communities, by Kent Roach
12. Counterterrorism and the Civil Rights of Muslim Minorities in the European Union, by Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
13. The Preventive Paradigm and the Rule of Law: How Not to Fight Terrorism, by David Cole
14. Recommendations for Western Policy Makers and Muslim Organizations, by Abdulkader H. Sinno
List of Contributors
Index
