2010-07-01 Eurooppa: Tutkimus uskonnollisesta suvaitsemattomuudesta

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Rodulliset seikat olivat aikaisemmin syynä vähemmistöjen vainoon, mutta eivät enää vähemmistöjen sortaminen uskonnollisista syistä on kasvavasti suurempi syy syrjintään kuin rodullinen syrjintä. Tämä selviää Minority Rights Group International tutkimuksessa.

Monissa alueissa maailmalla köyhyys on sidoksissa uskontoon - ja erityisesti näin on muslimien kohdalla lännessä jotka joutuvat valtion kasvavan kontrollin, militanttien, nationalistien ja äärioikeistolaisten kohteeksi. Minority Rights Group International johtajan Mark Latimerin mukaan emme ole nähneet uskonnollisia vainoja tässä mittakaavassa, sitten pimeän keskiajan.

Esimerkkinä mainitaan mm. anti-islamilaisen Geert Wildersin oikeistolaisen puolueen nopea kannatuksen kasvu.

Muslimit eivät kuitenkaan ole ainoita jotka kohtaavat huonoja tuneita. Sillä vähemmistöt muslimimaissa kokevat hyvin saman kaltaisia kysymyksiä.

Joka kerta kun Euroopassa on kiistoja muslimiasioissa (kuten pilakuva tapauksia) kristittyjä tapetaan esim. Irakissa. Asiat vaikuttavat toisiinsa ja aiheuttavat vaarallisen koktailin.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-religious-intolerance-mirrored-europe

Dutch religious intolerance mirrored in Europe

Racial tension used to be the main reason for  persuction, abuse, torture and killings of minorities, but not any longer. According to a recent report by the Minority Rights Group International, the targeting of minorities on religious grounds is increasingly becoming a bigger problem than racial discrimination.

In most regions poverty is increasingly linked to religion. Minorities in all four corners of the world - and particularly Muslims in the west -  have been targets of increased state control as well as nationalist campaigns waged by militant or right-wing groups. Mark Latimer, director of Minority Rights Group International says we haven't seen religious persecutions on this scale since the dark ages.

Islamic fundamentalism
Latimer sees the problem of religious intolerance as a new way of looking at differences between communities that have already been there for a long time. He names the situation in the Russian South Caucasus as one example. "There have been ethnic problems in that region for a long time. The Chechnya war of the 90s shows that clearly. At the time this conflict was looked at as an ethnic-seperatist war. Now Russia condemns whats going on in Chechnya as Islamic fundamentalism and is launching attacks in the name of countering terrorism."

The report concludes that the poorest communities are increasingly defined along religious lines. In Europe the poorest communities are often the Muslim ones. The current political situation in The Netherlands is a good example of what is going on in the rest of the continent, says Mr Latimer.

Dutch example
Right-wing MP Geert Wilders want to outlaw the Koran and tax women who wear head scarfs and his anti-Muslim party has seen a rapid growth in popularity, winning 23 seats in last month's parliamentary election.

Many feel 9/11 was the catalyst for much of the strong anti-Muslim sentiments in the west, but Latimer says the attacks were merely a turning point. "From a Western perspective the Muslim communities in Europe and the US came under strong scrutiny after the World Trade Centre attacks. The feeling of many Muslims around the world was that their communities were being targeted. Ever since 9/11 we are seeing widespread religious profiling, especially when people cross borders or enter countries though airports. 9/11 gave the west the 'justification' of hardening its attitude towards an already unpopular religious group."

But its not just Muslims encountering increasing bad feeling. The Minority Rights Group International report talks about a mirror effect around the world. Non-Muslim groups in Muslim countries are experiencing very similar issues. Latimer points out  that religious minorities in Iraq like Christians, the Yezidi and the Mandian, are constantly targetted by armed militant groups because they are non-Muslims and are therefore considered infidels by the Muslim majority.

"Every time there is a major religious controversy in Europe, for example the publications of the Danish Muhammed cartoons, Christians are abused and killed in Iraq. So there is a direct correlation between European religious controversy and attacks on Christians in Muslim countries. These effects go around the world and make a very dangerous cocktail."

Minority Rights Group International
http://www.minorityrights.org/
Religious intolerance now driving persecution of minorities across the world – new report
http://www.minorityrights.org/10071/press-releases/religious-intolerance-now-driving-persecution-of-minorities-across-the-world-new-report.html
Religious minorities targeted by rise in nationalist and extremist groups in South Asia – new report
http://www.minorityrights.org/10073/press-releases/religious-minorities-targeted-by-rise-in-nationalist-and-extremist-groups-in-south-asia-new-report.html
Rise of far right in Europe fuels spread of intolerance towards religious minorities, new report
http://www.minorityrights.org/10076/press-releases/rise-of-far-right-in-europe-fuels-spread-of-intolerance-towards-religious-minorities-new-report.html

Hollannin ympäristöministeriön(?) uusimman rasismiraprotin mukaan valitukset anti-semitismistä ovat laskussa, mutta hyökkäykset muslimeja kohtaan ovat kasvussa.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/07/discrimination_is_going_down_i.php

Discrimination is going down, including anti-semitism: official report

Thursday 01 July 2010

The number of complaints about anti-semitism in the Netherlands is going down but there has been an increase in physical attacks on Muslims, according to the environment ministry's latest racial discrimination report, published on Thursday.

The monitor looks at trends in discrimination and concludes that attacks on Jews and Muslims vary according to national and international factors, such as the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh by a fundamentalist Muslim.

The results of the report are in sharp contrast to figures published by Israel information centre CIDI last week which claimed a rise in anti-semitic incidents.

Increase

Cidi said the number of physical attacks had doubled from two in 2008 to four last year. Threatening emails, graffiti and vandalism and swearing account for the bulk of the 167 incidents reported.

Claims of a rise in anti-semitism were also boosted by a tv show showing a rabbi and two youngsters in skull caps being shouted at and given a Hitler salute while visiting different parts of Amsterdam.

That led to the suggestion that the police should use plain clothes officers disguised as Jews to try and combat anti-semitic violence.

© DutchNews.nl

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Raportissa tai sen lehdistötiedotteessa manitaan ainakin seuraavantyyppisiä puolueita:
- populist right-wing
- hard-right
- ultra right-wing
- far-right
- extreme-right
- extreme rightwing
(voisiko joku kääntää ja luokitella nämä?)  

Itse raportissa suomikin saa huutia:

For example, the Finnish capital Helsinki refused to offer housing or health services to Roma from Romania, stating that social problems should have been solved in their home country.

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Paljonko tässä tutkimuksessa saa huomiota muslimien suvaitsemattomuus toisuskoisia ja ateisteja kohtaan? Yllätys yllätys, ei ollenkaan.

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Paljonko tässä tutkimuksessa saa huomiota muslimien suvaitsemattomuus toisuskoisia ja ateisteja kohtaan? Yllätys yllätys, ei ollenkaan.

Mainitaan sielä, että anti-semitismiä ilmeni vuonna 2009 Belgiassa, Tanskassa, Ranskassa, Ruotsissa ja Briteissä ja että tämä liittyy jotenkin Lähi-Idän tilanteeseen, mutta ei paljon muuta. Lähinnä kuitenkin keskitytään siihen, että juutalaisia syytetään nykyisestä talouskriisistä.

Noista muista ryhmistä en tiedä...

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Itse raportissa suomikin saa huutia:

For example, the Finnish capital Helsinki refused to offer housing or health services to Roma from Romania, stating that social problems should have been solved in their home country.

Tämä kuittaakin sitten melko täydellisesti raportin kirjoittajien uskottavuuden puolueettomina tutkijoina. Mikä tahansa omaan poliittiseen agendaan soveltuva väite menee suoraan raporttiin riippumatta siitä kuinka ilmeisen mielekkäältä tämä paheksuttava idea vaikuttaisi maan varsin maltillisesti käyttäytyvän enemmistön mielestä.