The Big Muslim Problem! - The New York Review of Books. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell Doubleday, 422 pp., $30.00 What I Believe by Tariq Ramadan Oxford University Press, 148 pp., $12.95 In April 1968, two weeks after the riots that devastated US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the British Tory politician Enoch Powell (who as minister of health between 1960 and 1963 had presided over the large-scale recruitment of nursing and health staff from Britain’s former colonies) predicted that a similar destiny was facing Britain.
Literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. Quoting a phrase of Virgil’s that would resonate famously down the decades, he warned: “I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’” This pattern is being replicated in cities throughout Western Europe. Marianne a peur de l'Islam. Le moins que l’on puisse dire est que le dossier de Marianne est volumineux.
Et que l’on y trouve de tout : analyses, enquêtes, sondage… Il est structuré comme suit : une longue introduction par deux journalistes de l’hebdomadaire, une petite dizaine de reportages dans divers pays européens, un sondage (sur lequel nous reviendrons), une longue conclusion (des deux mêmes journalistes). Le tout est entrecoupé d’analyses : plusieurs écrivains, d’origine arabe, sont invités à s’exprimer quant à l’épineux problème de l’islam en Europe. Un dossier d’une grande richesse ? C’est loin d’être certain. Un concentré des pratiques journalistiques les plus contestables ?
I. Première question : pourquoi l’islam fait-il peur… à Marianne ? Le dossier de la peur La lecture du dossier permet de mesurer à quel point son titre est trompeur, pour ne pas dire mensonger. Des reportages Des reportages, vraiment ? Des clichés Et que dire de ce cliché… photographique (qui se passe de commentaires) ? II. III. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America. SOURCE: Getty Images/Bill Pugliano Anti-Muslim graffiti defaces a Shi'ite mosque at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. By Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss , Lee Fang, Scott Keyes , and Faiz Shakir | August 26, 2011 Download this report (pdf) Read the report in your web browser (Scribd) Download individual chapters of the report (pdf): Introduction and summary Chapter 1: Donors to the Islamophobia network Chapter 2: The Islamophobia misinformation experts Chapter 3: The grassroots organizations and the religious right Chapter 4: The right-wing media enablers of anti-Islam propaganda Chapter 5: The political players Conclusion Video: Ask the Expert: Faiz Shakir on the Group Behind Islamophobia On July 22, a man planted a bomb in an Oslo government building that killed eight people.
By midday, pundits were speculating as to who had perpetrated the greatest massacre in Norwegian history since World War II. This network of hate is not a new presence in the United States.