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Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament. In this book he draws on his personal experiences with European politics and media, extensive fieldwork in Dutch mosques, and interviews with imams. 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. The portents are troubling, he notes, as evidenced by 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. Cherribi was voted out of Parliament in the anti-migrant fervor that engulfed the Netherlands after these murders and like many other Dutch Muslims he emigrated to the United States. Looking back on these events, and bringing to bear his skills and training as a sociologist, Cherribi provides an invaluable account of one country's encounter with some of the most troubling trends of our times.

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Author:   Sam Cherribi (Senior lecturer in sociology, Senior lecturer in sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.556kg
ISBN:  

9780199734115

ISBN 10:   0199734119
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Confessions: The Composite Relationship of the Secular and the Religious Chapter 1: The Established and the Outsider of the European Integration Chapter 2: Immigration without Integration Chapter 3: How Europe's Secularism became Contentious: Mosques, Imams, and Issues Chapter 4: Prisoners of the mosque Chapter 5: Pim Fortuyn versus Islam: Muslims, Gays and the Media's Reliance on Conflict Chapter 6: The Public Intellectual versus Islam: A Year of Sex and Rhetoric Chapter 7: Riding Pim's Wave: Islam, Women, the Sacred, and the Naked Conclusion: The Vanishing Muslim Individual Endnotes Bibliography

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<br> Cherribi's In the House of War is an extremely interesting study of recent developments in Western Europe, the Netherlands in particular. What caused the most progressive country of the world to lose its tolerance towards Muslim migrants? Cherribi, an insider of Dutch politics, provides many insightful observations. His explanations are well-informed and often provocative. Obligatory reading for anyone who wants to unravel the riddle of intolerant consequences of 'progressive' politics of our days! <br>--Jan Willem Duyvendak, Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam<br> The tensions surrounding religious Muslims living in European secular societies is one of the most topical issues of our age. In this book, Sam Cherribi blends scholarship with direct biographical experience to provide fresh insights into the triple pressures which Muslim communities face from below (to succeed in society), from within the Muslim community, and from above (from global Islamic forces). A fas

There is much in this study which is interesting. Philip Lewis, Muslim World Book Review

There is much in this study which is interesting. * Philip Lewis, Muslim World Book Review *

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