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Politics of Humanitarianism: The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare
2020
Ahmadi Muslims have combined local contributions and financial support from overseas to support various development projects since the 1920s when they started their mission activities in West Africa. The chapter outlines contemporary social welfare activities of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Humanitarian aid provided by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its NGO Humanity First is one of the issues favouring public recognition as well as interreligious dialogue to which the Ahmadis are equally strongly committed. Most of the donations for Humanity First come from members of the Ahmadiyya community, as zakat or sadaqa donations. Public recognition is particularly i…
Sūfisma ideju interpretācija Idrīsa Šāha grāmatā "The Sufis"
2022
Bakalaura darba nosaukums ir “Sūfisma ideju interpretācija Idrīsa Šāha grāmatā “The Sufis””. Darba tēma ir “The Sufis” grāmatas analīze par sūfisma filozofijas potenciālu mūsdienu cilvēka dzīvē. Mūsdienās cilvēkiem aug interese par Tuvo Austrumu garīguma praksēm, kas aptver cilvēku skatījumu uz dzīvi. Ņemot vērā valodu barjeru, mācību materiālu dažādība par citās kultūrās atrodamām filozofiska rakstura idejām ir ierobežota, tādēļ ir svarīgi kritiski aplūkot jaunāko laiku reliģiju interpretācijas. Idrīss Šāhs “The Sufis” grāmatas ietvaros vēlējies iepazīstināt Rietumu sabiedrību ar sūfisma mācības idejām, bet tās pielāgotas rietumnieciskās kultūrvides izpratnei. Šāha grāmata ir saņēmusi akad…
A World without Islam
2012
Do Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Trade Openness Explain the Disparity in ICT Diffusion between Asia-Pacific and the Islamic Middle Eastern Coun…
2010
This study investigates the impact of FDI and trade openness on ICT diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions from 1996-2005. The results indicate that while dissimilarities exist between the economies included in this study in terms of their level of socio-economic and political development, education and the growth of GDP have had a positive impact on ICT diffusion in both regions. However, while FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on Middle Eastern economies has been detrimental. The results of this study also show that trade-openness has had, in general, a positive and significant impact on ICT diffus…
Prejudice toward American Muslims: An integrated threat analysis
2013
This study explores prejudice toward American Muslims. Prejudice is conceptualized using Stephan and Stephan’s integrated threat theory (ITT). ITT identifies four kinds of threat that can lead to prejudice: realistic threats, symbolic threats, stereotypes, and intergroup anxiety. Data were gathered in the United States (N = 281) among self-identified Christians. Findings confirm: 1) a positive correlation between real and symbolic threats, and stereotypes, 2) increased contact with an immigrant group, in this case Muslims, is negatively correlated with perceptions of real and symbolic threat, and 3) levels of prejudice differ based on level of education. Theoretical and practical implicatio…
Politics of Fear and Racialized Rape: Intersectional Reading of the Kempele Rape Case
2018
Much of the anxiety, hatred, and fear felt toward asylum seekers as racialized others that had been aroused and incited during the summer and autumn of “the refugee crisis” of 2015 crystallized in the Kempele rape case. The case refers to the incident in which accusations were broadcast in the Finnish media that a suspected rape of a young girl by two refugees based at a newly established immigration detention center had occurred in the small town of Kempele in Northern Ostrobothnia on November 2015. It is an illuminating example of how race and ethnicity intertwine with gender in contemporary discussions that take place in both the traditional and social media. In this chapter I analyze th…
The Intersections of Sexuality and Religion in the Anti-Interculturalist Rhetoric in Finnish Internet Discussion on Muslim Homosexuals in Amsterdam
2014
In recent decades, Europe has faced the rise of nationalist populist movements objecting to increased immigration, cultural pluralisation, and interculturalism in European societies. Public discussion on interculturalism have often focused on the encounters of – and the wrangles with – migrants and local people and their diverse values. The members of anti-immigrant movements commonly object to cultural pluralism and intercultural practices and foster ‘traditional’, ‘Western’, and ‘national’ values. The discourse influenced by conservative ideologies also often embraces traces of xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny. In this paper, we ask how and why interculturalism is opposed in populist …
Le donne dell’Islam, una vita s–velata
2015
L'islam tra "fondamentalismo" e diritti dell'uomo
2019
I fatti recenti legati alla ripresa del fondamentalismo/terrorismo islamico e l'ondata di attentati e di persecuzioni contro i cristiani in giro per il mondo hanno sollecitato una nuova discussione critica, in particolare in Europa, in ordine alla compatibilità dell'Islam con i principi della modernità e dello Stato liberal-democratico.