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Finding Bin Laden in the Garden
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‘Finding Bin Laden in the Garden’
When discussing racism and the process of racialisation in Europe in the twentieth century, or more accurately, the long twentieth century (1870- 2000), historians, philosophers and sociologists have, with some consensus, identified that two ‘bodies’ have been central to theorisations of racism: the Jew and the Oriental. ... Thus the body of the ‘immigrant’ represents both an external ‘fundamentalist’ threat – from Saddam Hussein to Osama Bin Laden – and an internal Muslim danger to the European cultural identity, which is signified by Mosque construction, the wearing of headscarves by women, and the demands for public recognition of the religion. ... ’ Furthermore, in a climate of post- September 11 terror and the recent ‘Gulf’ crisis, perceptions of a stable binary of Us and Them seems likely to be reinforced: a civilised European order pitted against a swarming sea of ‘migrants,’ each of which, if they come in could, and would, be a ‘Bin Laden in the Garden.
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Title: Finding Bin Laden in the Garden
Words: 2148
Rating: None
Pages: 8.6
submitted by: squinn
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