<p>Media representations play an important role in shaping public understanding of Muslims and Islam in Europe. This article examines <i>Allah in Europe</i>, Jan Leyers’ eight-episodes documentary series, as a case study of the way media constructs Islam as both integral to and different from European identity. Filming a journey from Bosnia to Brussels, the series juxtaposes diverse Muslim experiences: Bosnia’s historically embedded Islam, Hungary’s defensive communities, Austria’s institutionalized Islam, France’s marginalized banlieues, Britain’s plural religious landscape, Scandinavia’s refugee politics, Germany’s transnational mosques, and Dutch-Belgian debates on radicalization. Drawing on securitization and racialization scholarship, this article contends that the documentary frames Islam as Europe’s internal Other and at the same time portraying Muslims as ordinary citizens negotiating faith, gender, and belonging. The analysis reveals that that the series advances its narrative through episodic contrasts that both humanize Muslims and reproduce securitized framings of difference. As such, the documentary serves as a site where questions of identity, integration, and cultural authority are mediated.</p>

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Positioning the internal other: European Islam and securitization in Allah in Europe

  • Rachid Lamghari

摘要

Media representations play an important role in shaping public understanding of Muslims and Islam in Europe. This article examines Allah in Europe, Jan Leyers’ eight-episodes documentary series, as a case study of the way media constructs Islam as both integral to and different from European identity. Filming a journey from Bosnia to Brussels, the series juxtaposes diverse Muslim experiences: Bosnia’s historically embedded Islam, Hungary’s defensive communities, Austria’s institutionalized Islam, France’s marginalized banlieues, Britain’s plural religious landscape, Scandinavia’s refugee politics, Germany’s transnational mosques, and Dutch-Belgian debates on radicalization. Drawing on securitization and racialization scholarship, this article contends that the documentary frames Islam as Europe’s internal Other and at the same time portraying Muslims as ordinary citizens negotiating faith, gender, and belonging. The analysis reveals that that the series advances its narrative through episodic contrasts that both humanize Muslims and reproduce securitized framings of difference. As such, the documentary serves as a site where questions of identity, integration, and cultural authority are mediated.