BUiD Assistant Professor co-authors article on Islamophobic law in France in Q1 journal Religions

 

Dr Christina Lienen, Assistant Professor of Public Law at BUiD, co-authored article titled, ‘French Islamophobia: How Orthopraxy Is Conceptualized as a Public Peril’ France in Q1 journal Religions.

In their paper, Christina Lienen and Samir Sweida-Metwally, examined France’s trajectory from a new perspective: A Muslim legal viewpoint. It argues that the French approach constitutes a two-step process of institutionalized Islamophobia, understood here as hostility towards Islam as a faith. First, the state redefines mainstream Islamic orthopraxy as “extreme”, pitting ordinary religious practices against averred Republican values. Second, it seeks to promote an alternative concept of a “French Islam” positioning it as the only acceptable framework for Muslims to practice their faith in France.

For full paper, please click here https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16010064

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