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Transnational Activism among Danish Muslims during the Muhammad Caricatures Controversy: A Negative and Reversed Boomerang Effect
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EUI RSCAS; 2008/18; Mediterranean Programme Series
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LINDEKILDE, Lasse E., Transnational Activism among Danish Muslims during the Muhammad Caricatures Controversy: A Negative and Reversed Boomerang Effect, EUI RSCAS, 2008/18, Mediterranean Programme Series - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/8868
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The paper delivers an empirical analysis of the effects of Danish Muslims’ transnational activities during the Muhammad caricatures controversy in 2005/06 on subsequent Muslim claims-making. The paper argues that the envisioned “boomerang effect” of the transnational activities – the attempt to put pressure on Danish authorities through contacting political and religious authorities in the Middle East - backfired on Danish Muslims. This seems especially to be true for the actors involved in the so called “imam-delegations” – the delegations of preliminary religious authorities that travelled to Egypt, Lebanon and Syria in December 2005. These actors were forced into a more defensive mode of claims-making soon after their return to Denmark. Building on the case study of Danish Muslims’ transnational activities during the Muhammad caricatures controversy, the paper concludes by suggesting some theoretical modifications/specifications of the boomerang model of transnational activism, and by discussing briefly the more long term implications of what happened during the Danish controversy.
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Mediterranean Programme Series
Ninth Mediterranean Research Meeting: Workshop 12