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Research highlights how usage and claims of Islamophobia tend to be simplistic and without nuance. Using a case study approach, this article considers the claims of Islamophobia made in relation to the proposed Dudley 'super-mosque'. Setting out a narrative of the 'super-mosque', this article draws upon primary and secondary research to consider the claims and discourses of the major actors in the Dudley setting: the Dudley Muslim Association, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, the far-right especially the British National Party and the English Defence League, as well as individual political figures. Considering each in detail, this article seeks to evaluate the extent to which each of the actors and the claims of Islamophobia made against them might be valid. As well as exploring claims of Islamophobia within a 'real' environment, this article seeks to critically engage the opposition shown towards the mosque, the way in which the opposition campaigns were mobilized and engineered, and how the ideological meanings of Islamophobia was able to be readily utilized to validate and justify such opposition. In doing so, this article concludes that the claims and usage of Islamophobia was weak and that a more critical and nuanced usage of the term is urgently required.

Many political theorists extol the virtues of deliberation in efforts to reconcile differences in opinion and prevent group fracture. On August 21, 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted narrowly to reverse standing policy by allowing gay and lesbian people in committed relationships to serve openly as clergy. In the aftermath of this decision, numerous congregations began thinking about leaving the denomination. We surveyed a sample of ELCA clergy in the fall of 2009 and spring 2010 to assess their commitment to deliberative norms and practice, their implementation of such practices in congregational meetings designed to discuss the ELCA's vote, and the outcomes of those more or less deliberative forums. We found considerable commitment both to deliberative practice itself and belief in the efficacy of such practice. Despite the assumption that religious doctrine and public deliberation are incompatible, religious organizations often find deliberative processes essential to their survival.

Friedrichs talks about global Islamism, which appears to be the most virulent communitarian challenge to cosmopolitan world society. This is not to deny that there are further communitarian minor images of world society, such as Hindu fundamentalism, but they do not come with the same globalist aspirations. Other communitarian projects, such as Evangelicalism or Pentecostalism, are more compatible with world society. Global Islamism the broader movement that aims at the establishment and consolidation of a global community of Muslim believers in a politically and sociologically virulent sense. This includes non-violent elements of transnational political Islam, such as the various branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as religious entrepreneurs spreading the vision of the global umma through the mass media. Adapted from the source document.

Morocco five years from now, in the aftermath of the 'Cumin Revolution': through such a projection and without any recourse to political fiction, the article draws an posteriori balance sheet of the current stalemate by looking at the solutions proposed. Such a reversal of perspective makes it possible to raise old questions, left unanswered, in a new form. The Monarchy, political Islam, the economy, immigration, the daily struggles to live one's life, the tensions between the generations, between modernity and tradition - all these aspects are reviewed from the perspective of the near future. In this light, the 'new Morocco' seems like a pipe dream, the confinement of the country into a waiting room following the current wait-and-see policy, a real utopia. Yet, the other Morocco - a country where life would be easy and pleasant - is within reach. Adapted from the source document.