‘Testing Multiculturalism’: Identity Politics and the Case of the East London Mosque

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25 mars 2022

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In November 2009, the construction of minarets was banned in Switzerland (home to 400,000 Muslims of mainly Turkish and Bosnian origin). Ironically, a Sikh temple, complete with ‘a gleaming white crown’ had been inaugurated in Langenthal (the town in which the minaret was being proposed to be built) in 2006 without any signs of protest. The right wing anti-minaret campaign used posters depicting a woman in a burqa in front of minarets shaped like missiles rising from a Swiss flag. The populis...

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