Within the Western European creativeness, Muslims are sometimes conceived as some international physique from Europe. This couldn’t be farther from the reality: Islam has been part of European historical past for a thousand and 300 years. Right this moment, it’s the second-biggest world faith and the second-most populous faith in Europe as properly. 44 million Muslims reside in Europe – not counting Turkey.
The religion of 1.91 billion individuals with a historical past of seventeen hundred years could be very various. What we will say for certain is that Islam is a part of European historical past and our cultural heritage.
However alongside it has come one other phenomenon: anti-Islam political actions, first as non secular ideology and later in a racialized cloak. And immediately it’s gaining extra traction in Europe, particularly as conflicts tense up round immigrant populations.
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Customary Time speak present S2E10: No international physique
Anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism type a double helix throughout European historical past. These ideologies have knowledgeable the politics of the Christian components of Europe for over a thousand years, and have all the time been used to impress fragmented polities towards a shared enemy or a scapegoat. Anti-Muslim racism is an expression of a politically constructed duality between Islam and Christianity, described by Edward Saïd in 1978: ‘The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.’
Right this moment, within the asecond of our twin episodes on these intertwined prejudices, we glance into anti-Muslim racism and the way it informs public discourse.
Within the final episode, we talked about anti-Semitism, and immediately, we’ve got three company of various Muslim backgrounds residing in Europe and speaking about their expertise and perspective.
Visitors
Amani Abuzahra holds a doctorate in philosophy, is an creator, public speaker and one of many best-known audio system on the subject of Islam and anti-Muslim racism in Austria. Whether or not on TV, at conferences, in her publications or in group work, her strategy is to deconstruct prejudices and empower individuals.
Priyanka Hutschenreiter is Eurozine’s very personal venture supervisor, and an anthropologist whose work engages with Muslim religious-secular experiences in South Asia and Europe by the lens of queer feminist idea. They maintain a PhD in cultural anthropology from SOAS College of London.
Zeynep Demir is a cultural supervisor native to Istanbul, residing and dealing in Hungary, and is likely one of the producers of this very speak present.
Studying listing
Amani Abuzahra, Ein Ort Namens Wut
Priyanka Hutschenreiter, Queering postsecularism
Hilda Dayan and Jolande Yansen on Antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism and Europe
Do Muslim Ladies Want Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
Kenan Malik, The final campaign and Is there one thing about Islam?
Oliver Roy, Islam in Europe: Conflict of religions or convergence of religiosities?
Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt, Culturalism: Tradition as political ideology
Märta Bonde’s topical reads, Rephrase and erase
Artistic staff
Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief
Daniela Univazo Marquina, writer-editor
Merve Akyel, artwork director
Zeynep Feriha Demir, producer
Zsófia Gabriella Papp, digital producer
Administration
Priyanka Hutschenreiter, venture supervisor
Judit Csikós, monetary supervisor
Csilla Nagyné Kardos, workplace administration
OKTO Crew
Senad Hergić, producer
Leah Hochedlinger, video recording
Marlena Stolze, video recording
Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording
Richard Brusek, sound recording
Postproduction
Milán Golovics, dialogue editor
Dániel Nagy, dialogue editor
Nóra Ruszkai, video editor
István Nagy, publish manufacturing
Artwork
Victor Maria Lima, animation
Music by Crypt-of-Insomnia
Captions and subtitles
Julia Sobota closed captions, Polish and French subtitles; language variations administration
Farah Ayyash Arabic subtitles
Mia Belén Soriano Spanish subtitles
Marta Ferdebar Croatian subtitles
Lídia Nádori German subtitles
Katalin Szlukovényi Hungarian subtitles
Olena Yermakova Ukrainian subtitles
Aida Yermekbayeva Russian subtitles
Hosted by
The Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Vienna
Disclosure
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This programme is co-funded by the Artistic Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Basis.
Importantly, the views and opinions expressed listed here are these of the authors and audio system solely and don’t essentially replicate these of the European Union or the European Training and Tradition Govt Company (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA may be held liable for them.
