WUNRN
WLUML - Women Living Under Muslim Laws - is pleased to
announce the publication of its new Dossier 30-31
:
Direct Publication Link: http://www.wluml.org/sites/wluml.org/files/WLUML%20dossier%2030-31.pdf
STRUGGLE FOR SECULARISM IN EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA
Edited by Algerian sociologist
and WLUML founder, Marieme Hélie-Lucas, this dossier brings you papers by
over 15 contributors, including Karima Bennoune: The Law of the
Republic Versus the ‘Law of the Brothers': A story of France’s law banning
religious symbols in public; Pragna Patel: Cohesion,
Multi-Faithism and the Erosion of Secular Spaces in the UK: Implications
for the human rights of minority women; and Gita Sahgal: ‘The
Question Asked by Satan’: Doubt, dissent and discrimination in
21st-century Britain.
Marieme Hélie-Lucas
explains in her introduction that the dossier "addresses a burning issue:
the specificity of the struggle that women – be they Muslim or ‘of Muslim
descent’ – are waging in Europe and North America, and the way in which
their struggle and their strategic decisions are perceived elsewhere,
outside the context... Progressive forces in Europe are afraid to... be
labelled ‘Islamophobic’ and racist. Bending to both the pressure from
fundamentalists (a tactic we know well for they use the same one to
silence us in our countries) and to the guilt feelings inherited from the
colonial past, progressive forces fear above all to confront Muslim
fundamentalists (and not other fundamentalisms), as they know that
fundamentalists will accuse them to be ‘against Islam’, as they claim they
are Islam and the only legitimate representatives of the true Islam."
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
International Coordination Office