Thinking Europe’s “Muslim Question”: On Trojan Horses and the Problematization of Muslims

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Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2021-10-25 DOI:10.1177/20503032211044430

S. Bracke, L. M. Hernández Aguilar

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Abstract

Understanding the ways in which Muslims are turned into “a problem” requires an analytic incorporating the insights gained through the concepts of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism into a larger frame. The “Muslim Question” can provide such a frame by attending to the systematic character of this form of racism, explored here through biopolitics. This article develops a conceptualization of Europe’s “Muslim Question” along three lines. First, the “Muslim Question” emerges as an accusation of being an “alien body” to the nation, often expressed through the Trojan horse legend. Second, the “Muslim Question” is elaborated through demands of integration and assimilation, in which the production of difference entangles with calls and measures to regulate Muslims. And third, the “Muslim Question” is brought to life upon the terrain of gender and sexuality, as the imaginary of threat at the heart of the “Muslim Question” is a replacement conspiracy centered on birthrates.

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思考欧洲的“穆斯林问题”:特洛伊木马与穆斯林问题化

要理解穆斯林是如何变成“一个问题”的，需要一个分析，将通过伊斯兰恐惧症和反穆斯林种族主义的概念获得的见解纳入一个更大的框架。“穆斯林问题”可以提供这样一个框架，通过关注这种形式的种族主义的系统特征，在这里通过生物政治学进行探讨。本文沿着三条线对欧洲的“穆斯林问题”进行了概念化。首先，“穆斯林问题”以对国家的“异己体”的指责出现，通常通过特洛伊木马的传说来表达。其次，“穆斯林问题”是通过融合和同化的要求来阐述的，其中差异的产生与规范穆斯林的呼吁和措施纠缠在一起。第三，“穆斯林问题”是在性别和性的领域中被赋予生命的，因为“穆斯林问题”核心的威胁想象是一个以出生率为中心的替代阴谋。

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.