By Sam Cherribi
ISBN-10: 0199734119
ISBN-13: 9780199734115
Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who turned a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament. during this booklet he attracts on his own reports with ecu politics and media, broad fieldwork in Dutch mosques, and interviews with imams. in recent times, the Netherlands has been swept through a similar forces of swap that experience swept the remainder of Europe - the consolidation of the ecu Union, a huge inflow of Muslim immigrants and the emerging voice of Islamic fundamentalism. Cherribi argues that this small nation has amplified those forces, offering an invaluable lens in which to check traits in all of Europe. The portents are troubling, he notes, as evidenced through the murders of journalist Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, and then riots broke out, mosques have been burned, and Muslims have been brazenly reviled through the general public and the media. Cherribi was once voted out of Parliament within the anti-migrant fervor that engulfed the Netherlands after those murders and prefer many different Dutch Muslims he emigrated to the us. in retrospect on those occasions, and bringing to endure his talents and coaching as a sociologist, Cherribi offers a useful account of 1 country's stumble upon with probably the most troubling traits of our instances.
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When the emigrant visitors finally arrive by ferry in Morocco in the hot summer months, they often find themselves met by state-sponsored camera crews. The resulting live interviews are broadcast across the country to dramatize the importance of coming home and to perpetuate the idea that their tenure in Europe is a visit rather than relocation. The Moroccans constitute the most widely dispersed Arabic-speaking population in Europe. Although many of those who settled in the Netherlands and Germany are Berbers from the Rif and speak Berber more often than Arabic, most Moroccan households in Europe have a satellite dish to enable them to watch Arabic-language television channels, and Moroccans easily interact with other Muslims from other Arabic-speaking countries.
Most Moroccans living in Europe share the tradition of returning home to Morocco during the summer holiday season. In the summer months, 3 million Moroccans living abroad return home to visit family and friends. From Germany to Holland, France to Spain, the highways become crowded with Moroccan motorists driving home for the holidays. The Moroccan government makes a major issue out of this annual ritual. Major banks in Morocco display posters advertising special events for Moroccan families visiting from Europe, and advertising campaigns on television, on radio, and in the press are geared toward them and their disposable income.
The breakup of Yugoslavia and the ensuing civil war in the mid-1990s had dispersed thousands of Bosnian Muslim political refugees across Europe (as well as to the United States, Canada, and Australia). 23 Illegal immigration in Europe soon became the top issue among all European leaders, particularly at the European Summit in Seville in June 2002. At the summit, prime ministers from all of Europe agreed that immigration was such a major problem that it could no longer be addressed effectively at the national level and had to be dealt with by the European Union.
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