The Dutch fear of violence involving Muslims typifies the implicit association that people easily seem to make between Muslims and violence. Almost irrespective of the actual level of violent incidents, Muslims seem to project an image of responding violently to every political incident. How did this image come into being? In the Netherlands, what types of incidents and developments have occurr...

dar al-islam's population consists of muslims (majority), the people of the dhimma (non-muslim citizens of an islamic state known as the minority) and al-musta'min (an islamic classification for a non-muslim foreigner that enters muslim lands for less than a year and is legally protected by the muslim authority). the fact that public courts of islamic states have the jurisdiction to d...

One Muslim is Enough!” Evidence from a Field Experiment in France Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that t...

This paper summarises the main hypotheses and results of the research on the securitisation of Islam. It posits that the securitisation of Islam is not only a speech act but also a policymaking process that affects the making of immigration laws, multicultural policies, antidiscrimination measures and security policies. The paper deconstructs and analyses the premises of such policies as well a...

Collectively blaming groups for the actions of individuals can license vicarious retribution. Acts of terrorism by Muslim extremists against innocents, and the spikes in anti-Muslim hate crimes against innocent Muslims that follow, suggest that reciprocal bouts of collective blame can spark cycles of violence. How can this cycle be short-circuited? After establishing a link between collective b...

Philanthropy for Muslims is almost second nature as it constitutes a basic article of faith. In the South African context, Muslims over the years have established formal and informal agencies to nurture the institution of charity. Muslims give to a diverse number of causes both within and outside of the community. This paper examines what motivates South African Muslims to give, the patterns of...

Purpose – This study attempts to examine the relationship between service quality perception and customers’ satisfaction in Malaysian Islamic banking using the SEM approach. Design/methodology/approach – This model starts with SERVQUAL measurement scales consisting of six dimensional structures: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy, and plus the compliance dimensions t...

<h1>Abstract</h1> Muslim Americans have reported experiencing racial profiling, physical threats, and verbal abuse based on their religion, ethnicity, color (Samari, 2016). These types of lived experiences can negative personal consequences for influence attitudes behavior toward non-Muslims. A literature review conducted by Simon et al. (2018) suggests the need research that explor...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...