Islamophobia in Slovenia: Politically Produced Intolerance

Dragoš, Srečo

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“…The analysis of Islamophobic statements produced by the political functionaries and theologians of the RCC (Dragoš 2004) in the explicit phase of Islamophobia, shows that these statements can be classified into six general argumentation types, as shown in Table 2.…”

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“…While there is a correlation between intolerant attitudes and some stratification indicators (such as education, financial situation; Toš and Vovk 2014) when intolerance spreads out, this, however, does not apply for its origin or beginning-the "merit" of the latter goes to the political elites. The beginnings of all major kinds of intolerance in Slovenia came from the top to the bottom, and the major indicator has always been the political elites (Pajnik and Fabijan 2022;Dragoš 2004Dragoš , 2006Dragoš , 2014Dragoš , 2016. The same goes for our neighbouring country, Croatia (Erceg 2023).…”

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The Catholic Church and Refugees in Slovenia

Dragoš

2024

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In Slovenia, the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) is the largest, most influential, richest, and most politically significant among all religious organisations. In estimating its contribution related to migration and the refugee situation it is necessary to consider the wider context of Slovenian society, primarily four characteristics: (1) despite the principle of separation of state and religious spheres, it is in relation to the Roman Catholic Church that the bulk of unresolved issues and occasional exacerbations occur; (2) while Slovenian public opinion is rather volatile in its expression of social distance to foreigners, it does not represent the main problem; (3) Slovenia’s state politics are very closed to refugees; and (4) political parties from the right wing of the political spectrum are rather xenophobic. While the Catholic Caritas plays a positive role in the care of refugees, the RCC has always supported the right-wing political parties when they come to power, and it is also susceptible to Islamophobia.

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