is a prelude to a broader strategy of social engineering and discipline aimed at inclusion into a western capitalist order. Using surveillance to manage and contain a population provides the necessary detailed knowledge to ‘see’ it and break it down into governable units (Haggerty,...
Indonesia, a multi-island nation of some 230 million people, has the world’s largest Muslim population. According to the country’s 2000 census, 86.1 percent of Indonesians are Muslims. “The mob invaded the lobby of the hotel [named the Oval] and would not leave unless the police and t...
At the taking of Lisbon, this time by an alliance of European armies, and following the tragic fate of the Muslim population once the city was retaken (1147), an English priest could not hold being moved by the fate of the Muslims: “We are inclined to feel pity for our enemies in ...
In 2010, Muslims were estimated to constitute 6 % of the European population and 5.5 % of the Dutch population (Pew Research Center2011). Estimates from 2007 show that the majority (69 %) of all Dutch Muslims has a Turkish or Moroccan background, while other large groups come from Surinam...
“Racial discrimination” in a population has most frequently been inferred from attitudinal data which elicits agreement with statements about ‘behavioural readiness’ in response to questionnaires aimed at measuring prejudice concerning different groups [6,7]. While one would expect a person who declar...
The Chinese government has confirmed the drop in the birth rate to CNN but claimed that between 2010 and 2018 the Uyghur population of Xinjiangincreased overall. During the crackdown, textbooks for Uyghur culture, history and literature were allegedly removed from classes for Xinjiang schoolchildren,...