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Engaging Political Islam: An Option
for Europe‘s Centre Right?
Roland FreudensteinCentre for European StudiesBrusselsEDS Summer University 2010
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Sharia
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Jihad
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Eurabia?
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Why engage?
• National security/terrorism• Urban peace/de-radicalisation• International security• Teaming up against leftist
secularism?
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Questions
• Political Islam?• Moderate Islam?• Euro-Islam?• Muslim Democrats – like Christian
Democrats?• Engagement– Cooperate– Dialogue– Debate
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What‘s in a term? (I)
• Qur‘an – hadith (statements of the Prophet)• Sharia: Islamic law; halal - haram• Ulema (clergy) – imam (cleric)• Fatwah (ruling)• Qufr/Infidel (non-believer) – dhimmi
(monotheistic non-believer under Muslim rule)
• Hijab – chador – niqab - burqa
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Muslim Brotherhood
• End of the Caliphate (WW I)• Founded 1928 by Hassan al-Banna - Sunni• Shaped by Sayeed Qutb since late 1940s• Egypt: al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun• Morocco: Party for Justice and Development
(PJD)• Jordan: Islamic Action Front (IAF)• Palestine: Hamas
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Sayeed Qutb (1906-1966)
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Muslim Brotherhood
• True Islam is lost in jahiliyyah• Restore Islam by making qur‘an and sharia
system of governance• Re-establish the Caliphate• Against Arab nationalism (Ba‘athism)• Against corrupt Arab elites (takfiri)• Against the West, colonialism, decadence etc.• Recently: Non-violence except Palestine, Syria
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What‘s in a term? (II)
• Jihad: Struggle – holy war• Taqiyyah: self-protective dissimulation• Ijtihad: Reasoning• Islamophobia• Respect• Resistance
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Resistance and popular culture
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Resistance and popular culture
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Walid Phares
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Irshad Manji
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Icon: Tariq Ramadan
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Quote: Tariq Ramadan
(On massacres of Christians in Nigeria):
„We need to consider the situation objectively and bring a critical view as much to the causes – global homogenisation and a
sometimes savage Westernisation – as to the consequences – ethnic and religious
tensions.“
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Icon: Mustafa Çeric
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Quote: Mustafa Çeric
„Religious tolerance is clearly commanded in our Holy Book:
God does not forbid you to deal kindly and justly with those who have not declared war
on your religion or driven you out of your homes (60:8)“
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Icon: Abu Laban
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Quotes: Abu Laban• „If we discovered Islam was a threat to the
West, I would be the first to fight it.“ (2005)• But: orchestrating anti-cartoon protests in
DK and Middle East (2005)• „They accept the chador and Islamic
lifestyles. We, therefore, must pretend that we accept their religion and individual freedom. But this is impossible. Islam can accept no one who does not adore Allah.“ (1995)
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Christopher Caldwell
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Islamists in Europe: New European Brothers (NEB)
• Most Muslim orgs in EU are not Islamist• But: governments often talk to
participationist Islamists• Union d‘organisations islamiques en France
(UOIF)• Muslim Association of Britain (MAB)• Islamische Gesellschaft Deutschlands (IGD)• Milli Görüş
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Goals of the NEBs
• Preservation/creation of strong Islamic identity among EU Muslims
• Participation in mainstream society• Leader and official representative of Muslims• Create, implant and expand ultra-orthodox
Muslim bloc= against integration as we understand it
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Implications of a Centre Right overture
• NEB positions directly clash with core European values
• Mainstream Muslims would hardly understand this
• Embarassment among non-Muslim public (like multi-culturalist Left)
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Lorenzo Vidino
The Brotherhood
in Europe
(forthcoming)
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Other important authors• Alistair Crooke: Resistance• Tamim Ansari: Destiny Disrupted• Timothy Garton Ash: Facts are Subversive• Ian Buruma: Murder in Amsterdam• Gilles Kepel: The War for Muslim Minds• Paul Berman: Who‘s Afraid of Tariq
Ramadan? (article)• Necla Kelek: Die fremde Braut• Nick Cohen: What‘s Left?• Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel
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Conclusions
• Muslim Democrats: cooperation• Traditional Islamic parties:
dialogue• Islamists: debate
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Time to respond
• Countering the narrative of the End of the West
• Learn, learn and learn!• Acknowledge immigration as a fact• Avoid relativism• Recognise friends (Muslim liberal democrats)• Define enemies (Islamists)• Choose the appropriate tools
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