Rahmaanir laah Bismil-Raheem, Lahi Rabbil Alhamdulil-Alamin, wa wa assalam wing assalatu Rasulilah (saw) in the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, all praise be to Allah The Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon His Prophet Muhammad (saw)
In recent years we have witnessed a drift of our society towards the right, a rightward consistent policy in Europe, which is shown explicitly in the electoral results of xenophobic parties, but also the increasingly strong penetration of these discourses on the major parties, whether right or left. Fascism is not represented today by the far-right parties, but in a series of trends that are dominant in the mass media and more or less assimilated by mainstream political parties. Among these trends, we mention the following:
- Xenophobia, ie the rejection of immigration. Political use of the misgivings about immigration. Fobia
- secularism, that is: rejection of state neutrality and the equality of all citizens irrespective of their religion.
- Islamophobia, ie the rejection of the presence of Islam.
- Growing increasingly visible and control of economic power over policy. Drift
- civil rights debate on security and identity.
The rightwing is unstoppable. On the one hand, the right has been that the issues it is interested are the dominant themes of political and media agenda, which generate more debate. A Platform for Catalonia phenomenon is just a story within this global drift. The right turn affects the major parties, that xenophobia and Islamophobia are among the major parties, as well as in academia and the media. I say this from experience.
other hand, it is becoming more visible their control of economic power over political power. Given the economic situation of many European countries is almost an obscenity to talk about democracy. Zapatero Read statements from a couple of months, virtually acknowledging that the welfare cuts implemented in Spain had been imposed from outside. And see what is going on Ireland, with a government that is forced to accept outside help, under draconian conditions, that conflict with their interests. Speaking of sovereignty country at the moment is an understatement. Actually, this is what has been happening around the world for many years with the implementation of the policies issued by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which have conditioned the granting of loans to the implementation of the agenda the large financial corporations. We speak for the advance of neoliberalism, because this is the framework that allows us to understand the rise of fascism.
Islamophobia
With all the stems prominently Islamophobia. Islamophobia is a psycho-social disease, the same group as other diseases such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia or Judeophobia. It is based the hatred of others, understood as an entity outside and dangerous, with particular values \u200b\u200band contagious harmful, threatening to the 'social body'. Islamophobia, like other variants of fascism, paves the way to the confinement and persecution of the group to be demonized.
Islamophobia prominently in contemporary politics. There are several factors that have led to making it a central component of the dominant ideology. It is not only irrational rejection of a sector of the population by another, but a social phobia induced from certain centers of power, to justify greater control of individuals by the state. This is the framework through which ideology is generated assent to military actions (globally) and police / judicial (locally) than in a normal situation would not be accepted. This ideological dimension today enjoys wide acceptance in academic and political circles, and is in line with the neoliberal policies of corporate globalization.
Within the European Union, Islamophobia trace the internal borders of Fortress Europe, Muslim immigrants subjected to a subordinate status. Are in Europe to be exploited, not allowed to demonstrate as citizens. Should be kept in constant "state of emergency ", by continuous surveillance and its transformation into" the other "unassimilable, as opposed to the values \u200b\u200bof the dominant culture. The inherent logic of Islamophobia leads to authoritarian involution and national-cultural development of democratic systems, derived from a model based on social rights to a model based on the identity and security. Advance
fascism in Europe are witnessing the rise of political parties and openly Islamophobic. The UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene speaks of "political normalization and legitimization of the use of racist and xenophobic arguments as an acceptable means of generating political consensus. " Beyond the social support to these speeches, the media coverage contributes to the normalization of Islamophobia. Alarmingly, the penetration of these items on the agendas of parliamentary parties on the pretext of combating "illegal immigration", the promotion of "national preference", the "fight against terrorism" and security. The rejection of the presence of Islam discourages the development of religious freedom and civil rights of Muslim citizens. The institutions that lend to the normal development of their religious rights are accused of "collaborating with the enemy" and "promote Islamic invasion Europe '.
This theory, known as "Eurabia" was coined by Bat Ye'or, Jewish Egyptian linked to Israel, made famous by Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and to spread widely on the Internet. According to this theory, there is a Euro-Arab agreement to facilitate the incorporation of Islam in Europe, in return for oil concessions. The pact would lead inexorably to the Islamization of Europe, and pass through the dissolution of the State of Israel agreed. This theory highlights the close relationship between Islamophobia and Zionist project, performing the demonization of Islam as a legitimizing ideology of colonization of Palestine. Israel is presented as "the spearhead of the West in the Islamic world", while Muslim immigrants act as a fifth column of the Islamic world in Europe.
The acceptance and even respectability of Islamophobia in many sectors of the Western intellectual and academic world is particularly significant, and unlike other forms of rejection of other groups. It is unthinkable nowadays to find racist statements against blacks, Jews or Gypsies among European intellectuals, yet it appears that many intellectuals accepted uncritically all the stereotypes characteristic of Islamophobic discourse.
Islamophobia and Identities national
The growing presence of religious minorities with their own customs is often perceived as a threat to social cohesion and traditions. There is a certain resistance from elites to abandon the ideology that links the territory (the nation) to the majority religion, resistance identity that, to intensify, can lead to a free project management fundamentalism respectful of diversity.
1. Is frequent confusion between a territory, ethnicity and religion, as essential elements together (Spain and mainly Christian land, the Christian roots of Europe). It creates a dialectic Centre-Periphery, in which Muslims are relegated to the suburbs and take the second-class citizens.
2. The rivalry between the religions offers the best breeding ground for violence. Religious hatred is based on the denigration of religion, "the other", considered as a false religion, or wrapper elements that make it incompatible with the "proper" religion. Ultimately, the hatred stems from the idea of \u200b\u200bthe superiority of their religion. In the European case, this idea is associated with Eurocentrism and the idea of \u200b\u200bprogress as a summit of European civilization, based on "Judeo-Christian values."
3. Is considered to be Muslim involves disloyalty to the institutions. From this premise, we justify intolerance towards Muslims: Do not tolerate the (stereotyped) intolerant.
Culture War
Islamophobia is a growing phenomenon, particularly marked in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia, and a strong presence in Spain. We are faced with creating a culture of war, in which 'Muslims' are as opposed to 'western values'. It denies the individuality of over 1,500 million people and are considered an enemy against which we must defend ourselves. This climate of widespread suspicion leads all types of discrimination, such as social rejection, the difficulties in obtaining housing or employment discrimination. In the area of \u200b\u200breligious freedom, Muslims found it increasingly difficult to open places of worship and perform other practices connected with their religion. The context of existing tension leads to an increase in attacks against Muslim individuals and organizations.
At first we consider the Islamophobia as a social pathology, similar to other forms of demonization of a group (Judeophobia, xenophobia ....) However, further analysis shows the ideological dimension of Islamophobia, as part of a wider ideology. It is a cultural construct made from certain centers of power (hence the role of think tanks) with a clear policy intent. We are located at the construction of an enemy, linked to a neo-colonial political project that is manifested in militaristic foreign policies and in internal colonization of Muslim immigrants, considered to be workforce ready to be exploited. Hate speech is based on the denial of the individuality of the "other" reduced to being part of an anonymous mass and inhuman, "Muslims ',' the Jews ',' Hindus ',' Christians." The antireligious hate victims are not considered human beings by their executioners, but as parts of a body identified with a religion, which is caricatured and presented as opposed to ethnic or religious values \u200b\u200bthat the "own" group embodies.
dehumanizing Given this strategy, human rights and the concepts of citizenship and civil rights give us the context (both ethical and legal) that will overcome the amalgam of ethnicity, culture, religion and nationality. The right of peoples to preserve their identity can not justify violations of freedom of religion and conscience. An identity that is based on the destruction of another is not such a thing, but a social disease that must be combated. We must insist on respect for minorities, as a key element of living in a world of increasing multiculturalism and religious pluralism. The development of religious freedom, to grant full civil rights of Muslim immigrants and the fight against Islamophobia are the antidotes to hate. But they will not be effective without a recovery of democratic values, social and distributive justice, against the culture of predation and war that dominates contemporary politics. The end of internal colonialism towards Muslim minorities and the end of Western military expansionism are inseparable.
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