The topic of civic integration is now linked closely in the European public's mind with threats to security.
This issue raises a bunch of sociological and philosophical questions.
Broadly stated, people who worry about the security threats have in mind two different concerns:
(a) Street crime--robberies rapes. (See the kerfuffle over the Cologne New Year festivities);
(b) Terrorism--Paris attacks etc.
Yet we might also include the threat to core European values such as freedom of speech, secularism, and religious disrespect. These issues have cropped up over the Danish Cartoons and the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
From a sociological point of view, we want to know:
(i) what leads people to resort to terroristic violence against their state?
(ii) are such people driven by any specific ideology?
(iii) are they people that share a particular social or psychological background?
READ AND WATCH THE FOLLOWING:
Rana Foorohar, Why Europe Needs More Integration to Fight Terror—and All Its Other Problems Time 2015 (OP-ED)
That Ignoramus--The Roy-Kepel Debate NYT
Islam in France/Making of a Martyr (BBC Documentary 1997)
The Jihadist Next Door (You Tube - Channel Four UK)
French Terrorism Act (projet de loi renforçant les dispositions relatives à la lutte contre le terrorisme)
Olivier Le Bot, Striking a balance: from hate speech to glorification of terrorism - freedom of speech post-Charlie Hebdo
Simon Jeffrey, Q&A: the glorification of terrorism The Guardian 2006
Glyn Morgan, Mill's Liberalism, Security and Group Defamation
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