REI 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: 8 Women, Islamic Fundamentalism, Identity Politics
2 Apr 2015
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Terrorist bombings of the public transport systems ofmadrid and london have sparked fears. France, now home to 4-5milion muslims,the largest muslim population on the continent. Most muslims infrance-half to three- fths of whom are believed to be french citizens-have that europe may be breeding its own crop of indigenous jihadists. adopted french cultural norms;they enthusiastically endors republic values,including laicite(the french state"s aggressive of cial secularism) France has experienced large-scale immigration for a century and a half; immigrants and their children and grandchildren now account for almost a quarter of the country"s population. The separation of church and state infrance came into its own at the end of the nineteenth century when legislation stripped the catholic clergy of its traditional in uence in schools,hospitals,and courthouse. Even the radical union des organisations islamiques de france (uoifa),group af liated with the muslim brotherhood, boasts solid republican credentials when it decried the head scarf ban as evidence that the french government.
