{"id":1957,"date":"2007-05-23T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2007-05-23T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:42:02","slug":"talsma%c3%b0ur-muslima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2007\/05\/23\/talsma%c3%b0ur-muslima\/","title":{"rendered":"Talsma\u00f0ur m\u00faslima"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eitt af vandam\u00e1lum m\u00faslima v\u00ed\u00f0ast hvar \u00ed Evr\u00f3pu er spurningin um talsmann. \u00dea\u00f0 er ekki lj\u00f3st hver getur tala\u00f0 fyrir h\u00f6nd h\u00f3psins. \u00dea\u00f0 hefur leitt til \u00feess a\u00f0 fj\u00f6lmi\u00f0lar \u00ed leit a\u00f0 fr\u00e9ttum hafa skilgreint fyrir megin\u00feorra f\u00f3lks hver s\u00e9 talsma\u00f0ur og hver ekki. \u00deetta var eitt af f\u00e9lagslegum v\u00edddum Islam sem \u00e9g sko\u00f0a\u00f0i \u00ed verkefni \u00ed Tr\u00faarbrag\u00f0afr\u00e6\u00f0um sem \u00e9g t\u00f3k upp \u00ed Pontificium College Josephinum. \u00dear segi \u00e9g um st\u00f6\u00f0u talsmanna:<\/p>\n

Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n

One aspect of the transition of Islam into the Western European context is the lack of organizational structures among especially Sunni Muslims. The lacks of such structures, which in Christianity are called congregations and more often than not hierarchical in their structure, have made it difficult, for example communicating with various governments. (Nielsen 125)
\nAs the structure and hierarchy does not exist, the leadership roles are not fixed but earned. Especially in a new situation were the ascribed roles of the place of origin are not valid or possible to follow. (Nielsen 129-130)
\nThis situation and lack of structures, has at the same time opened up possibilities for groups that have weak status or are illegal in their country of origin, for example Kurds from Turkey, to take an initiative as a prominent Muslim group in the immigration country. In some cases those Islamic groups have been political and even militant and have therefore given the impression that Islam in general is political and militant. In secular societies were separation of politics and religion is celebrated, this has led to a negative attitude towards the Islam faith. (Nielsen 126)
\nHere the role of media is important, as groups that are ready to come forward and take a strong stand are preferred by the media over individuals or groups that tend to take a more cautious position towards reality. (Nielsen 164) This tendency can be recognized in Denmark where the \u201cIslamisk Trossamfund\u201d with 800 members has been represented as the main Muslim group in the country, even though \u201cMuslimernes F\u00e6llesr\u00e5d\u201d an umbrella organization of various Muslim groups has over 8000 members. (Libak)
\nAnother side to the lack of authority in the Muslim community is that any attempt to speak on behalf of Muslims can be questioned and therefore a dialogue between Muslims and any other group or officials are made very difficult. (Hoffmann 48)
\nIn my readings a came across few converts to Islam, that have taken on the task of being spokesmen for Muslims in their country of origin. Jane I. Smith mentions in her Introduction<\/em> to the book Muslims in the West<\/em>, that new converts sometimes play a vital leadership role in Europe, because of their ability to use the language and their understanding of the dominant culture. (Smith 12) Abdul Hadi Hoffmann, a former politician in Germany is one of those converts. Hoffmann mentions another problem with media, when he says in his article Muslims in Germany: The Struggle for integration<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All Muslims are made to be responsible by the media for everything any single Muslim does at any place in the world in the name of Islam. (Hoffmann 52)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One factor that also has impacted Islam is the recognition some governments in Europe has given to cultural or educational centers as an important part of the immigrants\u2019 life and have given those centers financial support in a way religious centers have not received. This has encouraged Muslims to focus on opening cultural centers as a starting point, which has led to a strengthening ethnical and cultural identity of immigrants, at the cost of their Islam identity, at least officially. (Nielsen 128) Due to this strengthening of ethnic\/cultural identity, the majority of Islamic groups are ethnic\/cultural based. (Nielsen 130)
\nSome international Muslim organizations try to avoid the ethnic stamp in their work, and it has given them strong presence in the Muslim world. One of them is The Muslim World League, based in Mecca and an important financer for various Muslim projects around the world without specific Ethnics criteria. (Nielsen 141) Another organization that has great influence in Europe is the Brotherhood. Their main focus is to go back to the basics, claiming \u201canything \u2026 which did not have sanction in the life of the community during the time of the Prophet Muhammad was corrupting of Islamic principles\u201d therefore rejecting all ethnic impurity in Islam. (Nielsen 143)
\nThis lack of structures seems to indicate that Islamic religious groups tend to be loosely connected sects. As Muslims become more settled in Europe, we can expect the groups to become more denominational like, focusing more on social consistency than individual transformation. (Smart 1983, 156-157)<\/p>\n

N\u00e1nar um ranns\u00f3kn m\u00edna h\u00e9r<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eitt af vandam\u00e1lum m\u00faslima v\u00ed\u00f0ast hvar \u00ed Evr\u00f3pu er spurningin um talsmann. \u00dea\u00f0 er ekki lj\u00f3st hver getur tala\u00f0 fyrir h\u00f6nd h\u00f3psins. \u00dea\u00f0 hefur leitt til \u00feess a\u00f0 fj\u00f6lmi\u00f0lar \u00ed leit a\u00f0 fr\u00e9ttum hafa skilgreint fyrir megin\u00feorra f\u00f3lks hver s\u00e9 talsma\u00f0ur og hver ekki. \u00deetta var eitt af f\u00e9lagslegum v\u00edddum Islam sem \u00e9g sko\u00f0a\u00f0i \u00ed … Continue reading Talsma\u00f0ur m\u00faslima<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,90,93,127],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islenska","tag-blog-is","tag-interfaith","tag-islam","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}