American Muslims and the Obama Administration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Muslims and the Obama Administration write by Mohamed Nimer. This book was released on 2010-11-24. American Muslims and the Obama Administration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. President Barack Hussein Obama began his first term in office with aggressive pronouncements of a change in the course of America’s relations with the Muslim world. One year into his presidency, Obama’s policies toward US Muslims appear to continue on the path set by his predecessor. This is the prevailing perception among the immigrant-dominated Arab and Muslim community groups in the United States. While government agencies dealing with Muslims have not altered their behavior under Obama, they are reflecting public concerns about Americanizing Muslim immigrants. The forces shaping the worldview of Muslim immigrants come from several sources. The rise of American economic and military power in the world since World War II meant that many immigrants had been exposed to American ideas in their countries of origin. Also, many came from places that had been experiencing a religious revival and some had joined Islamic movements before coming to the United States. Meanwhile, technological advancements in transportation and communication made it easier for recent immigrants to remain connected with their countries of origin, but still continue to flock to the United States. The Bush administration fell under the influence of neoconservatives who rode a wave of resurgent nationalism after 9/11. The Obama administration shifted toward the center of the American political spectrum. The seeming lack of change in domestic policies toward Muslims shows that the assimilation pressures that followed 9/11 are continuing. Yet community activists are in denial of the new reality; they have been accustomed to adapting slowly to American life. This paper will explore the growth of the Muslim community in the United States, the place of activist organizations in the community, their responses to assimilation, and the prospects for community–government dynamics.
New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations
New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations write by Eugenio Lilli. This book was released on 2016-06-01. New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy commitments. In 2009, Obama publicly pledged “a new beginning in US-Muslim relations,” causing eager expectation of a clear shift in US foreign policy after the election of the 44th president of the United States. However, the achievement of such a shift was made particularly difficult by the existence of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, US interests in the region which influenced the Obama administration’s response to the popular uprisings in five Muslim-majority countries: Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. After providing a detailed analysis of the traditional features of both US foreign policy rhetoric and practice, this book turns its focus to the Obama administration’s response to the 2011 Arab Awakening to determine whether Obama’s foreign policy has indeed brought about a new beginning in US-Muslim relations.
Islam
Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam write by Nadia Marzouki. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflect the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward freedom of speech and the legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy
Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy write by Edward E Curtis IV. This book was released on 2020-07-28. Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant form of American liberalism has prevented the political assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetorical support for their acceptance. Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet never with full success. Curtis argues that policies, laws, and political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential American political questions. Debates about freedom of speech and religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans will play a large role in what kind of country the United States will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom over fear and justice over prejudice.
How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda
How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda write by Andrew McCarthy. This book was released on 2010-12-07. How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While Americans focus on terrorism, a more insidious Islamist threat lurks. It is the agenda of sharia, Islams authoritarian legal and political system. The global Islamist movement aims, in the words of the Muslim Brotherhood, to destroy the West by sabotaging it from within. Its principal strategy is not mass murder but the exploitation of Western freedoms and the insinuation of sharia principles into Western legal systems. Because those principles are hostile to our core liberties, sharias advance gradually undermines our culture. In this Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows how the sharia agenda has found a friend in the Obama administration. President Obama is actively abetting the Islamist platform: promoting sharia in his foreign policy, easing enforcement of laws that stop Islamic ''charities'' from diverting funds to jihadist terror, and even sponsoring a United Nations resolution that under the guise of insulating Islam from criticism would stifle First Amendment rights.
