Farid Hafez

Scholar of Race, Muslims, and Europe

Author: fhafez

Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe

This article discusses the emergence of a discourse on ‘political Islam’ in the policy circles of European elites. It interprets this discourse on one hand as a manifestation of the further criminalization of Muslimness emanating from programs of countering ‘extremism’ and deradicalizing Muslim youth in the wake of the global war on terror. More specifically, […]