On Wednesday, April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Trump v. Hawaii case, in which the State of Hawaii is leading a challenge to an executive order preventing most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, as well as certain visitors from North Korea and Venezuela from entering the United […]
The French Initiative to Change the Qur’an
On April 21, a manifesto was published in the French daily Le Parisien. It was signed by some 300 prominent people, intellectuals and politicians including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. The manifesto “contre le nouvel antisémitisme (lit. against the new anti-Semitism)” basically stresses an older topic that is regularly popping […]
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The Change of Austria’s Islam Politics
The paper “Breaking with Austrian Consociationalism: How the Rise of Rightwing Populism and Party Competition Have Changed Austria’s Islam Politics”, which was published in the journal Politics and Religion seeks to explain Austria’s Islam-related politics by first suggesting that it can be best understood in terms of neo-institutionalist path-dependency and consociationalist policy-making. This is due […]
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Postkoloniale Analyse der österreichischen Islampolitik
In “Alte neue Islampolitik in Österreich? Eine postkoloniale Analyse der österreichischen Islampolitik” (Zeitschrift für Politik) untersuche ich die österreichische Islampolitik zwischen 2011 und 2017 an den Schnittstellen von postkolonial informierter Politikwissenschaft und Religionspolitik. Mithilfe des Foucault’schen Dispositivs wird die österreichische Islampolitik mittels einer Analyse von Publikationen, Presseaussendungen, Regierungs- und Parteiprogrammen, sowie Gesetzen herausgearbeitet. Vor dem […]
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The far right tightens the screws on Austria’s Muslims
Read my latest op-ed on the Austrian government’s diversionary maneuver from socio-economic issues here
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Interview zum Europäischen Islamophobiebericht
Der progressive Blog Mosaik hat sich mit mir zusammengesetzt und über verschiedene Seiten des Islamophbobieberichts gesprochen. Hier zum Nachlesen
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Islamophobia and move towards authoritarianism
Abandonment of principle of equality as a basis for democracy that ought to secure the equal treatment of all of its citizens means that we are witnessing a re-emerging political order. Lead my latest reflections on Austria’s headscarf ban here
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Debatte um Kopftuchverbote an Schulen
Mein Kommentar zur Debatte um Kopftuchverbote hier zum Nachlesen
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Release of European Islamophobia Report
The European Islamophobia Report 2017 covering 33 countries on 729 pages, written by 40 authors, is out. Download for free here.
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Decline of Austria’s far-right amid Nazi scandals?
Here is why the FPÖ’s apparent loss of support is not a direct result of a recent spate of anti-Semitic scandals. Read the full article
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