Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and InvisibleYvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith Rowman Altamira, 2002 - 306 pages Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets, misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and desires to protect their rights and identities, Muslims are coming into more and more into the public view. In Muslim Minorites in the West noted scholars Haddad and Smith bring together outstanding essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of issues facing them. Haddad and Smith in their introduction trace the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and other areas of European settlement and shed light on the common questions minority Muslims face of assimilation, discrimination, evangelism, and politics. Muslim Minorities in the West provides a welcome introduction to these increasingly visible citizens of Western nations. |
Contents
Spreading the Word Communicating Islam in America | 3 |
The Politics of Transfiguration Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 | 25 |
The American Muslim Paradox | 39 |
The Greatest Migration? | 59 |
Islamic Party in North America A Quiet Storm of Political Activism | 77 |
The Complexity of Belonging Sunni Muslim Immigrants in Chicago | 107 |
Being Arab and Becoming Americanized Forms of Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan Detroit | 125 |
THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE | 143 |
THE EXPERIENCE IN AREAS OF EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT | 193 |
Muslims in Australia The Building of a Community | 195 |
Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia Perth as a Case Study | 217 |
Muslims in New Zealand | 233 |
Muslims in South Africa A Very Visible Minority | 255 |
Muslims in the Caribbean Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens | 265 |
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Invisible Muslims The Sahelians in France | 145 |
The Northern Way Muslim Communities in Norway | 161 |
Turks in Germany Muslim Identity Between States | 175 |
About the Contributors | 303 |
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