Perpetuating Anti-Muslim Discrimination through the Interpretation of Religious Equality in the European Court of Human Rights

Dupont, Pier-Luc

doi:10.1163/22117954-12341343

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“…The hijab is perceived by a number of Western governments as a ‘sign of oppression and an irreconcilable difference between Islam and the West’ (Yamashita : 33). After introduction of burqa bans, there has been a growing number of legal cases brought to European courts, in countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, by Muslim women claiming they are being subjected to discrimination due to their religious practice of wearing of a hijab (Dupont ; Halrynjo and Jonker ). Regarding Western governments’ discriminatory policies and their effects on European Muslims, another study shows that fundamentalist Muslims in Germany took the 2009 Swiss minaret (the tower‐like structures adjacent to mosques) ban as a sign of ‘the West’s hostility towards Islam, in general, and their identities as fighters in an inevitable global jihad ’ (Holtz, Dahinden and Wagner : 1).…”

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Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam among European Muslims before and after ISIS: the important roles of residential segregation and education

Hekmatpour

Burns

2019

British Journal of Sociology

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Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam is one of the indicating features of Islamic fundamentalism and, in some cases, is serving as a pull to join extremist groups. In this paper, using data from two waves of a cross‐national survey, we investigate what affects European Muslims’ opinions about Western governments. We find that residential segregation is associated with perceived hostility of Western governments to Islam. Further, we find that Muslims living in segregated neighbourhoods and enclaves have a higher probability of believing that Western governments are hostile to Islam. National origins of Muslim immigrants have a significant impact, with people from African countries measuring less perceived hostility than others. We also find that education is associated with perceived hostility of Western governments to Islam in a non‐linear way. People with the highest and lowest levels of education tend to be less likely to believe that Western governments are hostile to Islam, relative to people with mid‐level education. This non‐linear effect is best explained by education’s differential effects on perceptions of key world events. During the time between 2011 – before ISIS’s announcement of its Caliphate in Iraq and Syria – and 2013, subsequent to that announcement, we see a sharp decrease in perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam, particularly among more educated European Muslims. We make the case that this decrease can be attributed, in some ways, to the emergence of ISIS. We discuss our findings in terms of theoretical and policy implications.

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Section: Historical Background and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%