Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.19
David Tittensor
The prohibit ion on the latter is problematic, as the f lag contains the Shahada (profession of faith)—one of the five pillars of Islam—and the law will encompass symbols that are ‘likely to be confused’ with the IS flag. As such, the law potentially criminalises the display of a sacred tenet in Islam. Further, as of 2021 there were already 92 federal counter-terrorism laws introduced post-9/11 making Australia’s program more robust than many of its Western counterparts. Further, despite these laws being race-neutral in tone, they have disproportionately targeted Muslim communities.
{"title":"Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims","authors":"David Tittensor","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.19","url":null,"abstract":"The prohibit ion on the latter is problematic, as the f lag contains the Shahada (profession of faith)—one of the five pillars of Islam—and the law will encompass symbols that are ‘likely to be confused’ with the IS flag. As such, the law potentially criminalises the display of a sacred tenet in Islam. Further, as of 2021 there were already 92 federal counter-terrorism laws introduced post-9/11 making Australia’s program more robust than many of its Western counterparts. Further, despite these laws being race-neutral in tone, they have disproportionately targeted Muslim communities.","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131962989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.10
Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Aslam Abd Jalil
{"title":"How the hyper-securitisation of Muslims in Malaysia is dividing society","authors":"Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Aslam Abd Jalil","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133150754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.15
Troy Meston, Debbie Bargallie, Halim Rane
Australia implemented unprecedented counter-terrorism measures of mass monitoring and preventative pre-crime offences following the hyper-securitisation of young Muslims after the events of 9/11. This was part of a broader turn in the West towards ‘militant democratic’ responses to violent Islamist extremism. Evaluations of the Australian response found it to be ineffective and counter-productive, effectively stigmatising Muslims as terrorist-producing communities. Nationalistic anxieties, perceptions of threat, and extreme measures of reactionary law and order in Australia, however, are not recent turns. Scholar Ghassan Hage makes clear that nationalistic anxiety and ‘extreme’ measures of law and order are symbiotic to enduring White nation fantasies
{"title":"Indigenous and Muslim peoples in Australia: Enduring threats to the national identity and nation","authors":"Troy Meston, Debbie Bargallie, Halim Rane","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.15","url":null,"abstract":"Australia implemented unprecedented counter-terrorism measures of mass monitoring and preventative pre-crime offences following the hyper-securitisation of young Muslims after the events of 9/11. This was part of a broader turn in the West towards ‘militant democratic’ responses to violent Islamist extremism. Evaluations of the Australian response found it to be ineffective and counter-productive, effectively stigmatising Muslims as terrorist-producing communities. Nationalistic anxieties, perceptions of threat, and extreme measures of reactionary law and order in Australia, however, are not recent turns. Scholar Ghassan Hage makes clear that nationalistic anxiety and ‘extreme’ measures of law and order are symbiotic to enduring White nation fantasies","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124866018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.18
Irfan Ahmad
{"title":"Securitisation of Muslims in India is as old as modernisation and nation-statisation","authors":"Irfan Ahmad","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"295 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121408650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.12
Johanna Lems, Laura Mijares
{"title":"Strategies of control and the silencing of Muslims in Spain","authors":"Johanna Lems, Laura Mijares","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132243640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.7
Julius Mok
{"title":"The managed securitisation of Malay-Muslims in Singapore","authors":"Julius Mok","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116034834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.17
Mark Sedgwick
{"title":"Islamophobia and Securitisation: The Dutch Case by Liselotte Welten and Tahir Abbas","authors":"Mark Sedgwick","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130660876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.14
Malik Riduan
{"title":"Indonesian civil society’s involvement in counterterrorism: between hope and risk","authors":"Malik Riduan","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131661879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.13
Alyssa Moohin
{"title":"Securitisation contributes to an anti-women backlash in Australian Muslim communities","authors":"Alyssa Moohin","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124152070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x15.11
Imène Ajala
{"title":"France's anti-separatism law is increasing the securitisation of Muslims","authors":"Imène Ajala","doi":"10.37839/mar2652-550x15.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x15.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415300,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Asia Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129451742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}