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- Title
Surveilling and Criminalizing Austrian Muslims: The Case of 'Political Islam'.
- Authors
HAFEZ, FARID
- Abstract
In this commentary, I deal with how the governing conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) managed successfully to fundamentally reshape the state's politics towards Muslim communities by introducing the terminology of 'political Islam' in the public discourse. I show how this affected the political discourse, how the governing ÖVP has been using institutions to produce knowledge in order to criminalize Muslimness, and how this also affected the work of the domestic intelligence agency and subsequently police operations. I argue that by introducing the notion of 'political Islam' came a criminalization of vocal and/or organized Muslims as well as anti-racist actors.
- Subjects
MUSLIMS; PEOPLE'S Party (Political party : Austria); AUSTRIAN politics &; government, 1945-; LEGAL status of Muslims
- Publication
Insight Turkey, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 2, p11
- ISSN
1302-177X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25253/99.2021232.1