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Inspired by her firsthand experience witnessing the Islamic resurgence in Tunisia as an adolescent, Zeghal focuses her research on Islamist movements and the institutionalization of Islam in the Muslim world...
Zeghal is expert on the postcolonial period of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as on Muslim Diasporas in North America and Western Europe...
...contrast, some French anti-burkists argue that wearing the burka could be a safety hazard while driving at rush hour on crowded highways, for example. Likewise, if the burka remains legal, hardened non-Muslim criminals disguised as Muslim women could then be able to commit any number of crimes with great impunity. (Apparently, one such crime has already occurred.) Others have argued that because the French state outlaws walking down the street in the full monty, why can’t it outlaw its exact opposite? Yet another and more interesting argument has to with feminism and human rights...
Well, in my head, I know that Muslim women should everywhere be allowed to wear the burka. Of course, some will surely do so because they are victims of unpleasant patriarchalism. But then again, in Western culture also, many fathers drive their daughters to distraction and many domineering men drive uncertain women to drink and despair, but we’ve learned to live with many such injustices and inequalities...
Europe, in particular, has faced difficulties this year. Caught in the rising tide of anti-Muslim hysteria—a product of a dysfunctional immigration system and a chronic failure to assimilate new immigrants—normally mild-mannered Switzerland passed a measure banning minarets, a law we passionately decried. We feel that this legislation is discriminatory against an embattled minority and only further alienates, and thus radicalizes, European Muslims...