Yes, Societal Religiosity and Muslim Governments Threaten Human Rights

Cingranelli, David; Kalmick, Carl

doi:10.1353/hrq.2020.0047

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“…Most studies that address religious legitimacy in politics do so in other contexts where the role of religious legitimacy is an element of an argument focusing on another topic. These studies, which mostly focus on some aspect of religion and politics, commonly assert that religion is capable of supporting (or undermining) the legitimacy of governments and their opposition (Arjomand 1993, 45; Assefa 1990, 257; Berryman 1987, 126; Billings and Scott 1994; Cosgel et al 2018; Horowitz 2007, 914; Lincoln 2003; Williamson 1990, 243), leaders (Barter and Zatkin-Ozburn 2014, 190; Brasnett 2021, 43; Cingnarelli and Kalmick 2020, 940; Ives 2019; Saiya 2019b) and other political activities and phenomena such as conflict, terrorism and violence (Appleby 2000; Dalacoura 2000, 883; Deitch 2020, 3; De Juan 2015, 766; Hoffman 1995; Horowitz 2009, 168; Klocek and Hassner 2019, 6; McTernan 2003), conflict resolution and peacemaking, (Appleby 2000; Luttwak 1994, 17, 18), political protest and mobilization (Akbaba 2019; Fawcett 2000, 8; Hoffman and Jamal 2014, 595), discrimination, (Fox 2020; Peretz and Fox 2021), populism (Cremer 2023, 172; Peker and Laxer 2021; Sandal 2021b), and fascism (Eatwell 2003), among others.…”

Section: Classic Religious Legitimacy Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries

Fox

Breslawski²

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Most assume that when governments support a religion, they do so in the hope that they will increase their legitimacy. However, a growing literature implies that support for religion may decrease a government’s legitimacy for three reasons. First, political secularism, an ideology mandating the separation of religion and state or state restrictions on religion, is increasingly popular. Second, state support for religion can undermine religious vitality. Third, support for religion entails an element of government control over religion which can undermine the perceived authenticity of a religion. We test this support–legitimacy relationship in Christian-majority countries from 1990 to 2014 using the Religion and State and World Values Survey data, comprising 54 countries and 126 country years. We find that state support for religion is associated with lower levels of individual confidence in government. We posit this has important implications for our understanding of the underpinnings of legitimacy.

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Section: Classic Religious Legitimacy Theorymentioning

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State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries

Fox

Breslawski²

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…We discuss how the situation in Al-Hol is intrinsically connected to our prevailing world order, which continually presents the West as at loggerheads with the Islamic world-and further, at war against terrorism and Islamic radicalisation embodied by ISIS (Jacoby, 2015). Importantly, this adversity is not restricted to the rhetoric of populist right-wing politicians, but equally embedded in the field of human rights scholarship, where Islam has long been represented as predominantly "other" (Cingranelli & Kalmick, 2020;Said, 1978). Our article concludes by reflecting upon how to understand the co-existence of perpetual "others" with sustained belief in universal human rights ideals.…”

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Planned Misery of the Children in Al-Hol: Distancing as Bar to Rights and Consular Protection

Korhonen¹,

Halme-Tuomisaari²

2022

BLR

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Why are Western governments not retrieving detained minor nationals from Al-Hol's purgatory-like conditions? This article shows, under international human rights law, that the status of detained children as rights bearers is uncontroversial, as is their right to positive protection. We raise issues from recent debate on the securitisation of geopolitics in the relationship between the Middle East and the West, to demonstrate that there is little randomness, accidental, or arbitrary in the detained children's suffering. The suffering is a product of the socio-economic arrangement that characterises our prevailing world order-and that is connected to international human rights law's "civilising mission". We conclude by asking: How is the legitimacy of the human rights regime sustained despite fundamental inconsistencies and failures to realise its purpose?

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Human Rights from an Islamic Perspective: A Critical Review of Arabic Peer-Reviewed Articles

Almahfali¹,

Avery

2023

Social Sciences

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The relationship between human rights and Islam is important in countries of the Arab world where religion plays a significant role in public debates and daily life. The topic is particularly relevant at a time of sharpening conflicts and polarization, when forms of government in the region, the current world order, and the legitimacy of international organizations are increasingly contested. Much of the scholarly work published in English on this topic draws on sources available in English. This review, therefore, aims to make a contribution to the field through analysis and discussion of academic papers published in Arabic. A search was made in Google Scholar in April 2022 which yielded 12 publications published in 2020 and 2021, after inclusion and exclusion criteria had been applied. These publications were analyzed drawing on the four framing categories. A summary is also given of the definitions, sources, and premises on which the arguments of the publications draw. The reviewed papers contrast the universal and divine foundation of Islamic human rights with the limitations of modern conceptualizations based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The latter is described as emanating from Western hegemonistic aspirations and as detached from moral and spiritual values. The papers consequently argue that human rights would be guaranteed globally by generalizing a system of governance based on Shari’a law and the ideal of the Rightly Guided Caliphs. Little attention is given to human rights abuses observed in Muslim societies, diverse interpretations of Islamic source texts, or concrete measures to improve human rights protections in practice. Importantly, the arguments presented in these papers tend to reinforce a contemporary discourse that frames conflicting visions on human rights as a ‘clash of civilisations’ between ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’.

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Yes, Societal Religiosity and Muslim Governments Threaten Human Rights

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State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries

State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries

Planned Misery of the Children in Al-Hol: Distancing as Bar to Rights and Consular Protection

Human Rights from an Islamic Perspective: A Critical Review of Arabic Peer-Reviewed Articles

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