Haunted presents

Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in this work is largely based on media reporting and comment between the years 2005-15. From this basis a solid, informative background to the explosive mass Muslim immigration to Europe and the terror, conflict, racism, religious, social and political clashes of today is framed. No other scholarly work, yet one written in an empirical, attainable style, succeeds in presenting a more comprehensive, coherent and cohesive overview of the elements behind the headline-making news emerging from the tumultuous state which is Europe today.

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Amikam Nachmani is Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Klappentext
Haunted presents appraises the tangled, complex causes and effects of Muslim immigration and acclimation in contemporary Europe. It examines the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and the local communities in which they settle, with an accent on the impact of and on Jewish communities and Judaism. The analysis is based on media reporting and comment between the 2005 and 2015. It provides a solid and informative background to mass Muslim immigration to Europe and the subsequent experiences of terror, conflict and racism, as well as the religious, social and political clashes of the present time. No other scholarly work succeeds in presenting a more comprehensive, coherent and cohesive overview of the elements behind the headline-making news emerging from the tumultuous state which is Europe today. Among the topics discussed are the contribution of Muslims and Jews to Europe's culture, economy and society; the painful EuropeanJewish record and its implications for EuropeanMuslim relations; the Holocaust; the European Right and its views and agendas regarding Jews, Muslim immigration and its contacts with the State of Israel; Muslim violence, anti-Semitism and terrorist activity against European Jews and Jewish and Israeli interests; European restrictions on Muslim and Jewish religious rites and institutions (male circumcision, mosques, kosher and halal slaughter); and more. In a nuanced appeal to reason and hope throughout, the approach is characterised by a view to affirming a positive future that does not have to reflect the past and present.

Inhalt

1. Hectic times: Europe and its Muslim minorities2. European realities: aspects of the 'triangular' relations between Europeans, Muslims and Jews3. Haunted presents: the Holocaust as a yardstick 4. In the same boat: European opposition, Muslim migrants, impact on Jews5. East meets the West: Fiqh al-Aqalliyat (Muslim jurisprudence on minorities); Dina de-Malchuta Dina (the law of the kingdom is the law); Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam); Dar al-Harb (abode of war)6. A triangle in crisis: violence, aggression, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic phenomena7. Conclusion: brighter European-Muslim-Jewish futures?Index