Islamofobija iz središtva društva
ISLAMOPHOBIA FROM THE CENTRE OF SOCIETY
Author(s): Naime ÇakırContributor(s): Nina Osmanović (Translator)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Rijaset Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini
Keywords: Islamophobia; “enmity towards Islam”; “groupfocused enmity”; “Islam-related ethnicism” and “anti-islamic ethnicism”; racism
Summary/Abstract: According to a recent study by the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Vorländer, the PEGIDA movement is seen as a protest movement with rightist-populist premises and the average participant of the PEGIDA-demonstrations in the capital city of Saxony belongs to the middle class. The study states that the general “dissatisfaction with politics” is the dominant motive driving the protest’s participants, but that “basic enmity towards immigrants and asylum seekers” is also one of the motives, wherein the “reservations towards Muslims and respectively Islam” are expressed especially (Vorländer 2015). In this text the author deals with the question of why exactly does the image of Islam function as a catalyst for this dissatisfaction and shows that PEGIDA, in terms of its ingrained “image of the enemy Islam” isn’t a new phenomenon, but that it draws upon an already existing enmity towards Muslims.
Journal: Novi Muallim
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 61
- Page Range: 3-8
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Bosnian