Archivo etiqueta «Multiculturalismo»
Par Antal Örkeny, Université Eötvös Loránd (Budapest) et Stéphane Istvan Vari, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (LIBERATION, 09/03/10):
En Hongrie, en novembre dernier, deux «ombudsmen», médiateurs de la République, ont publié des propositions concernant l’enregistrement et la gestion des données de type ethnique.
Le premier de ces ombudsmen est à la tête d’un organisme similaire à la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (Cnil), l’autre est le médiateur responsable des conflits touchant les minorités, lui-même se définissant comme Rom.
Ils ont proposé de rendre administrativement visibles les minorités, pour que les citoyens ne soient plus «monochromes»… Seguir leyendo
Por Ferran Requejo , catedrático Ciencia Política (UPF), coautor de Desigualtats en democràcia, Eumo 2009 (LA VANGUARDIA, 27/01/10):
En los últimos veinte años, se han producido cambios importantes en la regulación de los derechos y de la acomodación institucional de distintos grupos étnicos y religiosos en las democracias liberales. Ello ha conllevado cambios tanto en la teoría democrática, como en la práctica institucional. Un ejemplo son las declaraciones de derechos aprobadas en los últimos años por la ONU, el Consejo de Europa, la Unesco o la Organización de Estados Americanos. Veamos el caso de las poblaciones inmigradas.
En términos generales,… Seguir leyendo
By Patricia Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University (THE GUARDIAN, 13/12/09):
As the great Tiger Woods steps down from the global stage, however temporarily, it is an interesting moment to consider the interplay of celebrity, sex, race and the corporatisation of sport. At first, I found all the hoopla difficult to understand. Tiger Woods always seemed so unremittingly phlegmatic that it’s hard to imagine him as the “sexposed!” “horndog!” described in all the tabloids.
But my image of Woods comes entirely from advertisements for Accenture, Gillette and Nike. My image is of Tiger the corporate logo, Tiger the… Seguir leyendo
Par François Grin, professeur d’économie à l’Université de Genève (LE TEMPS, 10/12/09):
Deux certitudes ressortent du tohu-bohu qui fait suite à la votation du 29 novembre 2009 où 57,5% des votants ont choisi d’inscrire dans la Constitution fédérale l’interdiction de la construction de nouveaux minarets.
Première certitude: il ne fait guère de doute qu’objectivement, la Suisse vient là d’inscrire le plus spectaculaire des autogoals: grave détérioration d’image internationale, risques de représailles en tout genre, incohérence par rapport à un ensemble d’idéaux fondateurs. […]
Une deuxième certitude, cependant, émerge peu à peu: c’est la grande difficulté de la plupart des commentateurs à… Seguir leyendo
By Selig S. Harrison, the director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/08/09):
As the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42 percent of the population of 33 million. One of the basic reasons many Pashtuns support the Taliban insurgency is that their historic rivals, ethnic Tajiks, hold most… Seguir leyendo
Por Brahma Chellaney, profesor de Estudios Estratégicos del Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Política de Nueva Delhi. Autor de El monstruo asiático: el auge de China, India y Japón. Traducción: José María Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 16/08/09):
Tras envolver militarmente la región de Xinjiang, rica en petróleo, es posible que las autoridades chinas hayan sofocado la revuelta uigur. Sin embargo, este episodio, el más mortífero de las manifestaciones de minorías étnicas registradas a lo largo de decenios – junto con el levantamiento que tuvo lugar en la meseta tibetana-muestra los costes políticos de la absorción étnica forzosa y… Seguir leyendo
Por Marc Carrillo, catedrático de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (EL PAÍS, 29/04/09):
La forma democrática de Gobierno se basa en el respeto a los derechos humanos y la dignidad de la persona como requisitos ineludibles. El valor constitucional del pluralismo demanda que nadie pueda ser discriminado, como establece el artículo 14 de la Constitución española, por razón de nacimiento, raza, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal.
Una consecuencia de ello es, por ejemplo, que el Estado democrático se funda en la tolerancia hacia la diversidad cultural que expresan los ciudadanos, como titulares de derechos… Seguir leyendo
By Sarfraz Manzoor (THE GUARDIAN, 25/04/09):
So it turns out that the 12 Muslims arrested two weeks ago – you know, the ones who, according to Gordon Brown, were planning a “very big terrorist plot” – were doing nothing of the sort. The arrests and subsequent release highlight how, in a time of heightened concern, anyone who is male and Muslim – and, even worse, happens to have Pakistani heritage – can get mistaken for a potential terrorist. It isn’t just the police who have a problem telling the difference. The trouble is that it isn’t obvious who is a… Seguir leyendo
By Kenan Malik, the author of the forthcoming book From Fatwa to Jihad (THE TIMES, 29/03/09):
Should public policy be colour-blind? Or must governments and public institutions take account of people’s ethnicity and culture in formulating policy? It is a debate that has been reignited by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempt to introduce ethnic monitoring in France.
Unlike in Britain, where public institutions routinely collect information about people’s ethnic origins, it is illegal in France to classify people in this fashion. The foundation stone of the secular French republic is that all citizens should be equal and free from distinctions of… Seguir leyendo
By Seumas Milne (THE GUARDIAN, 26/03/09):
The British government’s brand new counter-terrorism strategy is already in disarray – and ministers have only themselves to blame. The souped-up plan to fight al-Qaida, confound dirty bombers, halt suicide attacks and confront “extremism” in the country’s Muslim community was unveiled by the prime minister with much fanfare on Tuesday. But even before the 175-page “Contest 2″ document had been launched, the credibility of its promise to engage with the Muslim mainstream had been thrown into question by the decision of Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, to cut all links with the Muslim Council… Seguir leyendo
By Ed Husain, co-director of Quilliam and author of The Islamist (THE TIMES, 24/02/09):
As a child, I was unsure if I belonged to Britain, India – or both, or neither. In the day I went to a multifaith, multi-ethnic state school in the East End of London. At school I was taught to question, think and see all religions equally. In the evenings, I attended Koran schools at a mosque on Brick Lane where I was forced to learn to read Arabic, but not to understand meanings of words. I was not allowed to question, but simply to bob… Seguir leyendo
By Sunny Hundal, editor of the political blog LiberalConspiracy.org (THE TIMES, 13/02/09):
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s issuing his fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie’s death. The burning of The Satanic Verses on Britain’s streets was a defining moment. The novel’s alleged slur on the Prophet Muhammad politicised many Muslims, pushing them in a more radical, confrontational direction. Some see the Rushdie controversy as the first step on the road to the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
But good came from that 20-year-old furore. It was the catalyst for a furious and fast-paced debate about what it means to… Seguir leyendo
By David Edgar, a playwright (THE GUARDIAN, 29/10/08):
Jacqui Smith’s announcement yesterday of tougher measures to exclude “preachers of hate” is the latest in a series of initiatives to prevent young British Muslims turning to violent extremism. A mushrooming array of guidelines for schools, colleges and councils emphasises the need to challenge the narrative al-Qaida uses to attract recruits.
These guidelines do nothing to challenge the dominant narrative by which violent extremism is commonly explained, a narrative that sees even peaceful groups as transmission belts on which insecure Muslims are shuffled towards violence. However, there is a very different narrative… Seguir leyendo
Por Fernando García de Cortázar, director de la Fundación Dos de Mayo Nación y Libertad (ABC, 13/08/08):
Ahora que ha muerto en Moscú, me acuerdo de cómo recibió la izquierda intelectual su visita a España en los años setenta. Hoy, más de treinta años después de la publicación de Archipiélago Gulag, Solzhenitsyn es la voz atronadora que levantó a solas uno de los mayores y más rigurosos monumentos literarios contra los crímenes del totalitarismo soviético, el escritor que golpeó la buena conciencia de la izquierda mundial con el «yo acuso» de los tiempos del terror. Tiempos en que, bajo las… Seguir leyendo
By Seumas Milne (THE GUARDIAN, 17/07/08):
The political knives are out for Shahid Malik, Britain’s first Muslim minister. For years poor Malik has bent over backwards to toe the New Labour line and be the epitome of an acceptable, moderate Muslim. But Malik also knows his own community and, when a ministerial edict went out to boycott the largest Islamic cultural and political event ever staged in Britain, he balked. By any reckoning, he argued, the IslamExpo extravaganza, which attracted 50,000 people over the weekend, was a mainstream gathering and an important opportunity to win hearts and minds. Only when… Seguir leyendo