Series | Diaspore
Monograph | Writing about Islam
Chapter | 2 Io e l’Islam
2 Io e l’Islam
Abstract
This chapter gathers Shirin’s reflections about her experience as a Muslim Italian woman who has lived in Italy and the United Kingdom. Shirin portrays her daily life, including her experience of religious and racist discrimination. In particular, the text analyzes how Muslims are depicted in media and the frequent association between Islam and terrorism. “Io e l’Islam” does not only criticise the hypocrisy of xenophobe Europeans who believe that Western civilisation is inherently ‘superior’ to all other civilisations, but it also highlights the contradictions of extremist Muslims who contravene the teaching of Islam.
Submitted: Feb. 20, 2020 | Accepted: March 10, 2020 | Published April 22, 2020 | Language: it
Keywords Religious coexistence • Multiculturalism • Islamophobia • Islam in Europe • Diaspora
Copyright © 2020 Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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