Acknowledgments IX
List of Figures XI
List of Abbreviations XII
Introduction 1
Race, Religion, and the State 8
The German Islam Conference 19
Part 1
Figuring the Past—on the Muslim Question
Introduction to Part 1 29
1
Who are These Muslims? About the Past and the New Orient 32
1.1
About the New Orient 32
1.2
Canvassing Muslim Life in Germany 33
1.3
Can Anyone Wave a German Flag? Youth, Race, Gender, and Nationalism 46
2
Becoming a Problem 69
2.1
Problematic Ontologies 69
2.2
The Narration of a Problem 70
2.3
Gender Justice in the Swimming Pool 83
Part 2
Reconfiguring the Present—Integration as the Answer
Introduction to Part 2 93
3
Integration 96
3.1
Integration as Assimilation 96
3.2
Structural and Cognitive Integration 99
3.3
Emotional Integration 105
3.4
Social Integration or How to Re-socialize Muslims 109
4
4.1
Defending German Society 123
4.2
Trust and Transparency 129
4.3
Responsibility and Togetherness 133
4.4
Suffering Incorporation 145
5
The Glossary of the Conflictive Present 149
5.1
The Social Polarization of Germany 149
5.2
A Polarized Society: “Muslim anti-Semitism”, “Islamism”, and “Hostility against Muslims” 151
Part 3
Projecting Germanness into the Future—Tolerance and Imams
Introduction to Part 3 175
6
The Tolerant Future 179
6.1
The Tolerant Germans 179
6.2
Ten Muslims Teaching Tolerance to the Muslim Community 181
7
Secular Imams and Secular Muslims for a Secular Future 205
7.1
The Muslim Subjects of the Future 205
7.2
Imams 207
7.3
Secular Muslims 214
Epilogue: The Time of Race, Racial Times 226
Bibliography 239
Index 260