(Islam and the West: Hijab, communication and Muslim identity)
| Editor: Dr. Anis Ahmad Volume: 24 Issue: 49 Language: Urdu Pages: 207 Price: PKR800 Publisher: IPS Press Content |
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About the Book
One of the main values of Western civilization is the freedom of the individual, however during the last two decades, the tendency of Western governments, institutions and some scholars regarding hijab has been in conflict with this basic value of the West itself. As a result, white extremists in Western societies, despite being in the minority in terms of numbers, are taking a decisive position on political and social fronts across the country based on public pressure and sloganeering. Biased and discriminatory actions regarding Islam and Muslims are showing that the West’s perception of Islam is fundamentally based on a few baseless fears and misunderstandings. Muslims have been perceived as terrorists, extremists, and enemies of the West, leading to a societal attitude that opposes social interaction with them.
This discriminatory and prejudiced behavior of European nationalists towards Muslim women is not only a violation of the basic rights of Muslim women but also a defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 1948). Those who oppose such conflicts and human degradation remain silent spectators, but it is also true that within the West, there exists a class critical of the growing bias. The research articles included in this collection reflect the perspective of Western thinkers.
These articles indicate that Muslim immigrant women living in the West and local neo-Muslim women are being subjected to psychological, physical, cultural and religious violence through electronic and media channels due to Islamophobia. In these articles, the negative social, economic, academic, emotional and cultural effects of this aggression have been examined from a research point of view.
