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Violence and Gender in the “New” EuropeContentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr

Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden... [The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fined by the local authorities for xenophobically motivated speech. Upon appeal, el-Sherbini testified again against Wiens, who demonstrated in court that he was an open sympathizer of the right-wing party, the National Democratic Party. Immediately after her testimony, Wiens stabbed el-Sherbini to death in front of her husband and son. Media coverage of and political response to el-Sherbini’s death in the Dresden courtroom were notably muted. Although the murder quickly gained attention in Egypt (el-Sherbini’s home country) and Iran, followed by stories published in the United States and the UK, German officials and press did not react to the case for nearly a week. By the time they responded, el-Sherbini was being referred to as a “hijab-martyr” in the Islamic world, and her death was acknowledged as the first Islamophobic murder in Germany. Once a governmental and media response finally appeared, it was short-lived, and el-Sherbini’s murder quickly disappeared from the public eye.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Violence and Gender in the “New” EuropeContentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
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978-1-349-43525-8
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77 –112
DOI
10.1057/9781137007094_3
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Abstract

[The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fined by the local authorities for xenophobically motivated speech. Upon appeal, el-Sherbini testified again against Wiens, who demonstrated in court that he was an open sympathizer of the right-wing party, the National Democratic Party. Immediately after her testimony, Wiens stabbed el-Sherbini to death in front of her husband and son. Media coverage of and political response to el-Sherbini’s death in the Dresden courtroom were notably muted. Although the murder quickly gained attention in Egypt (el-Sherbini’s home country) and Iran, followed by stories published in the United States and the UK, German officials and press did not react to the case for nearly a week. By the time they responded, el-Sherbini was being referred to as a “hijab-martyr” in the Islamic world, and her death was acknowledged as the first Islamophobic murder in Germany. Once a governmental and media response finally appeared, it was short-lived, and el-Sherbini’s murder quickly disappeared from the public eye.]

Published: Nov 12, 2015

Keywords: European Union; Public Space; Public Sphere; Immigrant Woman; Muslim Woman

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