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Video games are at the core of a renewed focus of interest and have given birth to what are now known as game studies. Games eventually crystallise new forms of collective mobilisation and action and have to be considered as cultural artefacts. Vit Sisler, a researcher in game studies, tells us more about the religious and other challenges that games are posing in the Middle East and Muslim world.
A report that Muslims in California have been put under federal surveillance has led to renewed concerns in the American Muslim community that their religious freedom is coming under government pressure.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
Heavy metal music and other forms of rock and rap have become increasingly popular in the Islamic world, often as a protest against corruption in government, according to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
Are Muslim youth in urban India junking their religion for fear of being branded as terrorists? While many stressed out Muslims, weary of being targeted or racially profiled, are increasingly taking to spirituality and seeking solace in religion, educated youth are today consciously or unconsciously distancing from Islam to showcase their secular credentials.
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Indian Muslims are demanding the right to pray in nearly 600 historical mosques across the country which are under the control of the central government for archaeological reasons. Muslim leaders say it is high time the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) permitted their community to pray five times a day in all these mosques if it does believe in religious equality.
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Imaginations and exaggerations poison the atmosphere between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims, but a Dutch-Egyptian private initiative to build a press archive and a website intends to change this.
© Trouw 2005. This article was originally published in the Dutch newspaper Trouw on 1 December 2005, available at http://www.trouw.nl. The copyright remains with Trouw and the author. The English translation was done by Kees Hulsman and Elizabeth Yell of CAWU. The article was slightly edited by Religioscope for an international audience, with the permission of the author and translators. Published by Religioscope with permission. This article cannot be republished without first getting written permission from Trouw and CAWU.
The Centre for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU), based in Egypt, publishes Arab-West Report, a weekly English language electronic overview of articles published in the Egyptian press. The centre is also building a searchable electronic documentation centre of around 12,000 translated articles and special reports on issues related to Muslim-Christian, Arab-West understanding. For more information about subscriptions or CAWU itself, see http://www.cawu.org.
CAWU meanwhile is seeking financial support to keep its work going.
The integration of young Muslims into European society, to prevent both marginalisation and extremism, is a challenge facing all EU governments. Luckily, Islamic organisations across the continent are already giving a helping hand.
Julia Hieber is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment researching on ‘Muslim Youth, Islamic Organisations and their Networks in European cities’ with a case study in Munich, Germany. She has a BA (Oxford) in Geography, an MPhil in International Studies from Cambridge and a DEA in International Relations from Sciences-Po Paris. Using her experiences in the interlink between academia, public authorities, international organisations and civil society, she currently assists foundations and associations in promoting projects towards greater coexistence within Europe’s societal multiplicity.
© 2005 Julia Hieber. – This article was originally published in café babel on the 11th of Nov. 2005. Republished with permission of the author.
An increasing number of Muslim women in Kerala cutting across class and age barriers are wearing the burqa. In earlier times, Muslim women used to sport just a scarf.
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Indicative of changing times, a traditional Muslim family in this Uttar Pradesh capital arranged their daughter’s nikaah ceremony over the Internet.
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A South African university student here is changing the way young people view Islam by churning out Arabic rap songs that capitalise on the popular music genre.
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