"When Governments Get into Matters like Love and Faith, It Ends Badly"
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In October last year, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee in France beheaded schoolteacher Samuel Paty days after he had shown caricatures of Prophet Mohammed to his students. President Macron went on to announce a controversial “anti-separatism” bill and other measures - including school education reforms to ensure Muslim children do not drop out, stricter controls on mosques and preachers, all of which raised concerns amongst Muslims in France.
France is not the only country in the West, or the East negotiating its way through the intricacies of race and religion. Recent legislation in parts of India followed a campaign by hard-line Hindu groups against interfaith marriages that they call "love jihad" - Muslim men engaging in a conspiracy to turn Hindu women away from their religion by seducing them. Officials in Uttar Pradesh, which is the country's most populous state, have said the law will help prevent fraudulent religious conversions and aims to protect young women. Two other states - Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh - have implemented varying versions of anti-conversion laws with at least three other states - Haryana, Karnataka and Assam - planning to bring in similar legislation.
What are the current challenges faced by Muslim communities in Europe and North America in light of the development of counter-radicalization policies - and what are the social – and economic lessons to draw for other geographies too ?
Prof. Juliette Galonnier, Assistant Professor in Sociology, at Sciences Po spoke with Mitali Mukherjee and pointed out that whenever governments get into intimate matters like love and marriage or conscience, it will end up badly. Counter-radicalization policies have not proved successful in checking violent attacks, because they target religion not radicalization.
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France is not the only country in the West, or the East negotiating its way through the intricacies of race and religion. Recent legislation in parts of India followed a campaign by hard-line Hindu groups against interfaith marriages that they call "love jihad" - Muslim men engaging in a conspiracy to turn Hindu women away from their religion by seducing them. Officials in Uttar Pradesh, which is the country's most populous state, have said the law will help prevent fraudulent religious conversions and aims to protect young women. Two other states - Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh - have implemented varying versions of anti-conversion laws with at least three other states - Haryana, Karnataka and Assam - planning to bring in similar legislation.
What are the current challenges faced by Muslim communities in Europe and North America in light of the development of counter-radicalization policies - and what are the social – and economic lessons to draw for other geographies too ?
Prof. Juliette Galonnier, Assistant Professor in Sociology, at Sciences Po spoke with Mitali Mukherjee and pointed out that whenever governments get into intimate matters like love and marriage or conscience, it will end up badly. Counter-radicalization policies have not proved successful in checking violent attacks, because they target religion not radicalization.
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