This study aims to analyze the " French Islam", which can be considered as a projection of "European Islam", through ongoing studies and discussions. Therefore, with the qualitative descriptive discourse analysis method, it has been tried to reveal the recent attacks that we can evaluate in the religious fundamentalist category and the shaping of "French Islam" in the spiral of Islamophobia, which is gradually increasing in the West and therefore in France. As a result, Muslims here, on the one hand, are affected by both the cause and the result of the religious attacks shaped in the world of chaos (narrow in diameter but wide in effect), on the other hand, they get their share from France's view of the "other", which is also shaped by its colonial past, and this country's current tangle of problems. As a matter of fact, French Islam, which helps the current government's internal and external problems to disappear on religious grounds, is thought of as a way for Muslims to take part in the "republican table" (the transformation of the other into us), but when we look at the dynamics in this country, it stands as a difficult project to achieve. However, the rising oppression of the far right, terrorism, "new racism" that goes beyond classical racism, xenophobia, etc. Despite the pressure of events-processes and narratives that undermine coexistence, it is considered essential for both sides to achieve the "other France". Although the sincerity of the state is doubtful and it is a religious project to keep Muslims as the “exotic other”, in my opinion, Muslims should contribute more to this process, considering that French Islam will open the door to human-based meeting as a process of accepting itself on the basis of equal citizenship.
French Islam French Council of Muslim Worship Charter of Principles Islamophobia Exotic Otherness
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Religious Studies |
Journal Section | MAKALELER |
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Publication Date | December 31, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Issue: 14 |
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