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Item Bosniak sentiments : poetic and mundane life of impossible longings(2011-05) Velioglu, Halide; Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953-; Stewart, Kathleen, 1953-; Keating, Elizabeth L.; Ali, Kamran A.; Neuburger, Mary; Downing, JohnThis ethnographic work is about the aesthetic, habitual, and sentimental registers of some Bosnian Muslims’ (Bosniaks) daily lives in post-war Sarajevo. It addresses the ages-old themes of Bosnians’ multiple belongings and the question of political subjectivity through lived experience with a particular focus on the contemporary urgency to generate Bosniak national and religious subjectivity. It attends to the affective surplus of mundane scenes that convey the disconcerting drama of conversion to Islam, the nervous accumulation of new Islamic sensibilities, the vibrant ethos of Yugoslavism, the politically vulnerable but habitually engrained identity of Bosniannes, shared memories of the recent war, and the sustenance of the material and sentimental textures of domestic and communal life. Attending to the eventful character of the daily life enables the work to detail and test the existing frames of understanding Bosniaks (such as Nationalization and Islamization) and to further explore the potentialities of lived experience that escape existing regimes of representation.Item Civil liberties in America: A study of American attitudes before and after 9/11(2012-05) Billington, John T; Tsai, Yung-Mei; Johnson, Doyle P.This thesis seeks to interpret the attitudes of Americans regarding civil liberties and Muslims following September 11th, 2001 as a moral panic, using the theories of Cohen, Goode and Ben-Yehuda, and Alexander. Consensus as an essential element of moral panic was measured using data from the General Social Survey concerning attitudes towards the restriction of civil liberties before and after 2001. Hostility and consensus of opinion towards Muslims was also measured with the General Social Survey to determine the presence of a "Folk Devil" in a moral panic. Broadly defined, consensus for the restriction of civil liberties did not exist between liberals and conservatives following 2001. Hostility towards Muslims was also not found through the analyses.Item Muslims in Manhattan : those who built it up and those who brought it down(2010-05) Grifka, Lauren Elizabeth; Pedahzur, AmiMuslim immigration to the United States has not been studied in detail. The subject has received attention but has been conflated with the study of Arab Americans or Arabic-speaking peoples. The study of Muslim immigration is further obscured by the misconception that all Arabs are Muslim and all Muslims speak Arabic. Muslim immigrants are frequently grouped with other immigrants according to language, ethnicity or nationality. This constellation of factors makes it challenging to extract from the existing literature data which exclusively pertains to Muslim immigration. While conducting research, it became apparent that the immigration of Muslims to the United States needed to be addressed specifically. Presently, the two largest Muslim communities in the United States are located in Dearborn, Michigan and the New York-New Jersey area. The latter will be the focus of analysis since New York City, and later its surrounding boroughs and New Jersey, was the "mother colony" of the first Muslims to arrive in the United States. Additionally, the New York-New Jersey area has been a locus for radical Islamist activity and the site of numerous terrorist plots in the last fifty years. This analysis will trace the immigration of Muslims to the United States from the late 19th century until 2001. This span is appropriate for analysis because, prior to the 19th century, Muslim immigration was sparse and the period after September 11th has been examined extensively. It will be divided into six sections: pre-19th century and the early immigrants, 19th century through World War I, Post World War I, the 1930's, 1947 to 1965, and 1965 to 2001. Each section will contain two parts with the first covering the immigrants who arrived during that time. The second will focus on formation of the Muslim community in the New York-New Jersey area, both its mainstream and radical elements, and the important events which effected that community. The diversity of the Muslim community is frequently dismissed but will be highlighted here. The community includes various sects of Islam, including Sufi, Shia, Sunni and the Nation of Islam and its offshoots, and multiple ethnicities, including African American, Indian, Pakistani, Bengali, Afghan, Sri Lankan, African, Moroccan, Jordanian, Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian, Philippino, Bosnian, Yugoslavian and Albanian. The development of each of these sub-communities and the relationships between them will be addressed. The task is to conduct a historical analysis of the Muslim community in the New York-New Jersey area from its inception until the September 11th attacks thereby presenting a comprehensive understanding of that community in this region of the United States.Item Politics and Eschatology: Christian, Muslim and Liberal Traditions and Their Visions of Humankind's Future(2012-02-14) Loureiro, Roberto V.Within the context of contemporary politics, Christian, Muslim and Liberal traditions have been, in many instances, at odds with each other regarding how humankind?s social political future should be ordered. Such a conflicting condition has been aggravated by the global circulation of democratic ideals, which has significantly disseminated Western liberal values and made those ideals an almost universal desirable social commodity. In support of this argument, one can observe the unprecedented and controversial assumption that liberal democracy has become the ultimate form of political governance. It is in the context of these end-times liberal aspirations, whether self desired or imposed through external pressure, that some competing and conflicting elements are introduced into the political landscape of Christian and Muslim groups. By presenting itself as the universal and final solution for humanity?s future, liberalism appears to create uneasiness among religious people who, indeed, see its secular and religious-privatizing tendencies as a secular eschatological competitor. Despite this perceived end-times conflict, there may be hope for a constructive dialogue among these groups.Item Serving God and country(2012-05) Chen, Elizabeth; DeCesare, Donna; Minutaglio, WilliamWithin the United States Army, it is estimated that as many as 10,000 soldiers are Muslim. However, in 2008, only 3,086 active duty personnel self-identified as Muslim. Following the attacks of September 11 and more recently, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, there has been a marked shift in the general public’s perception toward Muslim citizens, and for American soldiers whom are Muslim; they have been placed in incredibly difficult circumstances. In this report, I aim to document the experiences of soldiers who are Muslim within the U.S. Armed Forces, and report on their struggles, successes and lives, in an era when Islamic terrorist and extremist groups are considered to be the United States nemesis. A vast majority of soldiers never encounter prejudice or experience religious or ethnic discrimination, but some do. And for soldiers who face prejudice in the military based on their religion or ethnicity, there is often little internal protection available from the higher chain of command. The problem may be relatively small in scope with regard to the number of soldiers affected on a daily basis, but fundamentally important constitutional rights are at stake in these cases of institutional lack of protection