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On the Muslim Question / Anne Norton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Public Square ; 19Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691157047
  • 9781400846351
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: On the Muslim Question: Philosophy, Politics, and the Western Street -- Part I: Muslim Questions -- 1. Freedom of Speech -- 2. Sex and Sexuality -- 3. Women and War -- 4. Terror -- 5. Equality -- 6. Democracy -- Part II. In the Western Street -- 7. Where Is Europe? -- 8. "Islamofascism" and the Burden of the Holocaust -- 9. In the American Desert -- 10. There Is No Clash of Civilizations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, "the Muslim question" has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up with others--about freedom of speech, terror, violence, human rights, women's dress, and sexuality. Above all, it is tied to the possibility of democracy. In this fearless, original, and surprising book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West's commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization. Moving between the United States and Europe, Norton provides a fresh perspective on iconic controversies, from the Danish cartoon of Muhammad to the murder of Theo van Gogh. She examines the arguments of a wide range of thinkers--from John Rawls to Slavoj Žižek. And she describes vivid everyday examples of ordinary Muslims and non-Muslims who have accepted each other and built a common life together. Ultimately, Norton provides a new vision of a richer and more diverse democratic life in the West, one that makes room for Muslims rather than scapegoating them for the West's own anxieties.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: On the Muslim Question: Philosophy, Politics, and the Western Street -- Part I: Muslim Questions -- 1. Freedom of Speech -- 2. Sex and Sexuality -- 3. Women and War -- 4. Terror -- 5. Equality -- 6. Democracy -- Part II. In the Western Street -- 7. Where Is Europe? -- 8. "Islamofascism" and the Burden of the Holocaust -- 9. In the American Desert -- 10. There Is No Clash of Civilizations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, "the Muslim question" has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up with others--about freedom of speech, terror, violence, human rights, women's dress, and sexuality. Above all, it is tied to the possibility of democracy. In this fearless, original, and surprising book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West's commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization. Moving between the United States and Europe, Norton provides a fresh perspective on iconic controversies, from the Danish cartoon of Muhammad to the murder of Theo van Gogh. She examines the arguments of a wide range of thinkers--from John Rawls to Slavoj Žižek. And she describes vivid everyday examples of ordinary Muslims and non-Muslims who have accepted each other and built a common life together. Ultimately, Norton provides a new vision of a richer and more diverse democratic life in the West, one that makes room for Muslims rather than scapegoating them for the West's own anxieties.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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