Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually…
Islamophobia
Unveiling decisions and narratives in post-9/11 America
“It was never an option for me to take off my hijab and run, and that should never be something…
Complicating hate speech matters
Though the very term Islamophobia remains highly contested in Norway, the reluctance to define anti-Muslim speech as a form of…
Religion and hate speech
Many recent hate speech cases involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or…
Freedom’s fascists: Hate speech and the new European far right
Far right parties have metamorphisized: they are now anti-Islamic rather than anti-Semitic; as populist parties they rely on mass mobilization…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Making a scene
Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
In the interest of informing our English-speaking readers about recent public debates involving questions of religious difference and public life…
On Sex and Secularism
Overall, the book aims to do two things: First, to offer a history that documents the ways in which gender…