Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison

222 Pages·2013·0.815 MB·English

by  Christian Joppke, John Torpey

L E G A L I N T E G R AT I O N
O F I S L A M
C h r i s t i a n J o p p k e
J o h n T o r p e y
A T r a n s a t l a n t i c C o m p a r i s o n
Legal Integration of Islam

LEGAL INTEGRATION
OF ISLAM
A Transatlantic Comparison
CHRISTIAN JOPPKE
JOHN TORPEY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
2013
Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows
of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Joppke, Christian.
Legal integration of Islam : a transatlantic comparison /
Christian Joppke and John Torpey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 674-0 7284- 8 (alk. paper)
1. Legal polycentricity— Europe. 2. Legal polycentricity— North America.
3. Islamic law— Europe. 4. Islamic law—N orth America.
I. Torpey, John, 1959– II. Title.
K236.J67 2013
340.9094—dc23 2012038238
For our children, who know something
of the complexities of integration

Contents
1 Introduction: Neutrality, Liberalism, and Islam
Integration in Europe and America 1
WESTERN EUROPE 17
2 Limits of Excluding: The French Burqa Law of 2010 21
3 Limits of Including: The German Reluctance to
“Cooperate” with Organized Islam 48
NORTH AMERICA 85
4 “Reasonable Accommodation” and the Limits of
Multiculturalism in Canada 89
5 The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Islam and Religious
Pluralism in the United States 114
6 Conclusion: Islam and Identity in the Liberal State 139
Notes 163
Court Cases 181
Bibliography 185
Acknowledgments 199
Index 201

Legal Integration of Islam