Who speaks for Islam?: ‘authenticity’ and the interpretation of Islamic law in America's war on terror

Nelson, Matthew J.

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“…Another showed an anxious cartoonist sketching a portrait entitled “Mohammad” while nervously straining to hide his work from view. The cartoons unleashed a flurry of reactions in Denmark, including formal protests by ambassadors from Muslim countries, severing of diplomatic ties with Denmark by Syria, Libya, and Saudi Arabia, and judicial charges of blasphemy against the newspaper (Bilefsky 2006; Cowell 2006; Smith and Fisher 2006; Mueller and Oezcan 2007; Nelson 2007).…”

Section: Cartoon Riots In Muslim‐majority Statesmentioning

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Blasphemy and Violence1

Hassner

2011

International Studies Quarterly

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Why did riots in response to the 2005 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad occur in nine Muslim states but not in 43 other states in which Muslims form a majority of the population? I show that the location of the cartoon riots is best explained by combining insights from the study of politics with arguments from the sociology of religion. Protests were mobilized by radical Islamist movements alarmed by the moral threat posed by the blasphemous cartoons. In states characterized by political rights and civil liberties, regimes responded haphazardly to the demonstrations, leading to confrontations between security forces and angry rioters. This finding can be generalized beyond the Muslim world: We should expect reactive religious violence wherever fundamentalist movements are confronted by transgressive acts, committed by threatening opponents, in a political environment that permits protest but fails to protect the religious principles of the movement.

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Section: Cartoon Riots In Muslim‐majority Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blasphemy and Violence1

Hassner

2011

International Studies Quarterly

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Who speaks for Islam?: ‘authenticity’ and the interpretation of Islamic law in America's war on terror

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