In the House of War

Oussama (Sam) Cherribi was born in Morocco. He is a Dutch citizen and a permanent resident of the United States. He served as a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002, during which time he also served as a member of the Council of Europe (an assembly focused primarily on human rights), of the West European Union, and twice of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations. He is presently a Senior Lecturer in sociology at Emory University.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Confessions: The Composite Relationship of the Secular and the Religious ; Chapter 1: The Established and the Outsider of the European Integration ; Chapter 2: Immigration without Integration ; Chapter 3: How Europe's Secularism became Contentious: Mosques, Imams, and Issues ; Chapter 4: Prisoners of the mosque ; Chapter 5: Pim Fortuyn versus Islam: Muslims, Gays and the Media's Reliance on Conflict ; Chapter 6: The Public Intellectual versus Islam: A Year of Sex and Rhetoric ; Chapter 7: Riding Pim's Wave: Islam, Women, the Sacred, and the Naked ; Conclusion: The Vanishing Muslim Individual ; Endnotes ; Bibliography

Cherribi's In the House of War is an extremely interesting study of recent developments in Western Europe, the Netherlands in particular. What caused the most progressive country of the world to lose its tolerance towards Muslim migrants? Cherribi, an insider of Dutch politics, provides many insightful observations. His explanations are well-informed and often provocative. Obligatory reading for anyone who wants to unravel the riddle of intolerant consequences of 'progressive' politics of our days!