Mattias Gardell

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Mattias Gardell

Hans Bertil Mattias Gardell (born August 10, 1959 in Solna ) is a Swedish historian of religion. Since 2006 he has held the Nathan Söderblom Chair for Comparative Religious Studies at Uppsala University .

Life

He is one of four children of the social psychologist Bertil Gardell . Among Mattia's siblings are the author and actor Jonas Gardell (born 1963) and the journalist and documentary filmmaker Stina Gardell (born 1966).

From 1984 Gardell studied anthropology and comparative religion at Stockholm University . In 1995 he received his doctorate there in religious history with a work Countdown to Armageddon , which deals with black nationalist Islam in the USA with a focus on the Nation of Islam led by Louis Farrakhan . In 1999 Gardell became an associate professor. He worked at the Department of Comparative Religious Studies and the Research Center on International Migration and Ethnic Relations at Stockholm University. His research touches on the tension between religion and politics in areas such as political Islam, white religious racism, neo-paganism and Satanism, religion and globalization, suicide bombings, political religion and the culture of violence.

He is married to the historian Edda Manga . Both have a total of nine children, six of whom have Gardell as a biological father and come from a previous marriage.

Political position

Gardell is an anarchist, but now prefers the term "libertarian socialist". In the 1980s Gardell was active in the anti-fascist action (AKA).

Islamism debate

The anti-Semitism researcher Henrik Bachner thinks that Gardell tries in his doctoral thesis to deny and explain away Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism. Fredrik Malm , MP for the Folkpartiet liberalerna , accuses Gardell of electing totalitarian Islamists as allies.

When the journalist Magnus Karaveli et al. a. demanded that Swedish Muslims recognize Swedish values ​​and the historians Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen published a report on Islamic anti-Semitism, Gardell accused them of Islamophobia. Oredsson and Tossavainen replied that Gardell idealized Islam and the Arab world and denied anti-Semitism among Muslims. Gardell also said:

“Political Islam is a hot topic for research. In my engagement with political Islam, I focus not only on the armed radicals, but also on the mainstream political Islam, whose activists believe that Islam is fully compatible with democracy and human rights. That there are Islamic democrats seems to offend those who imagine that Islam and democracy must be mutually exclusive - an idea on the principle that politically active Muslims are people based on , not which . Is spoken "

The terrorism researcher Magnus Ranstorp criticizes Gardell for, in his book Bin Ladin i våra hjärtan (" Bin Laden in Our Hearts"), the Islamist legal scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi , who has published a number of fatwas that are rejected in the West , as a representative of Wasatteya ( "Islamic mainstream"). In his book, Gardell describes "Wasatteya" as "Folkhem Islamism" (" Folkhemmet Islamism"), which represents "a kind of social democracy, but also with moral conservative elements".

Gardell attacked Uppsala University for the artist Lars Vilks giving a lecture on Islamism and freedom of expression. Gardell said, “It is worrying that Uppsala University, which should be a place for critical thinking and understanding, is giving Vilks a platform. But it also gave room to the Uppsala anti-Semites in the 1930s. "

Ship to Gaza

Gardell is the initiator and spokesman for the Swedish-Greek initiative Ship to Gaza . He and Manga, the jazz musician Dror Feiler and the writer Henning Mankell were among the twelve Swedish activists who participated in the ship fleet that tried to break through the Israeli trade blockade on the Gaza Strip on the morning of May 31, 2010 and was then occupied by the Israeli military has been. Gardell and Manga were on board the fleet ship Mavi Marmara , on which nine Turkish activists were killed. Gardell was one of seven Swedes who, along with over 400 other activists, were flown from Israel to Istanbul on the evening of June 3, 2010, where they were received by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt . On the same day, Gardell alleged that the Israeli army had pirated and executed at least four of the activists. Gardell wrote an article about the incident, “Beyond Victims and Terrorists”.

Witness in the Breivik trial

In June 2012, Gardell appeared in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik because of the attacks in Oslo and Utøya as one of the expert witnesses that the defense had named to prove that Breivik was insane. Gardell seen in the published manifesto of Breivik elements of cultural conservatism , Islamophobia , anti-feminism , white superiority thinking and Christian fundamentalism , as well as in the US Tea Party movement auftrete. Gardell sees the manifesto in a tradition of fascism , whereby Jews were exchanged for Muslims as enemy images without anti-Semitism having disappeared.

Awards

Works

  • Countdown to Armageddon. Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter Days , Stockholm University, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 91-7153-370-2 (dissertation)
  • In the Name of Elijah Muhammad. Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam , 1996, Duke University Press, Durham (North Carolina) 1998, ISBN 0-8223-1852-0
  • Rasrisk. Rasister, separatister och amerikanska Kulturkonflikter, 1998, Federativ, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-86474-22-7
  • Gods of the Blood. The Pagan Revival and White Separatism , Duke University Press, Durham 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3059-8
  • Am Ladin i våra hjärtan. Globaliseringen och framväxten av politisk islam , Leopard, Stockholm 2005, ISBN 91-7343-024-2
  • Tortyrens återkomst , Leopard, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-7343-171-2
  • Islamofobi , Leopard | location = Stockholm 2010, ISBN 978-91-7343-288-7

Web links

Commons : Mattias Gardell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b Pontus Ohlin: Anarkist, hedning och professor ( Memento from May 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Vår bostad , April 3, 2006
  2. ^ Striptease , Sveriges Television , 1991
  3. ^ Henrik Bachner, Svenska Dagbladet, March 18, 1996
  4. ^ Henrik Bachner, Svenska Dagbladet, April 11, 1996
  5. ↑ Henrik Höjer: Möt Mattias Gardell - Hedningen som försvarar politisk islam , Forskning & Framsteg , No. 2, 2007
  6. ↑ Mattias Gardell: Falska fakta om islam (print version), Dagens Nyheter , December 12, 2003
  7. ↑ Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen: Bortförklara inte antisemitismen (print version), Dagens Nyheter , December 20, 2003
  8. ↑ http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_6968588.asp
  9. ^ "Politisk islam är ett brännhett ämne att forska om. I min utforskning av islams politiska landskap focusserade jag inte bara på väpnade radical utan också på islams politiska mittfåra där activists besides att islam är full ferenlig med democracy and men’skliga rättigheter. Uppgift att det finns islamdemokrater förefaller väcka anstöt hos sådana som föreställer sig att islam och Demokratie måste utesluta varandra; en uppfattning som bygger på principen att politiskt aktiva muslimer är menniskor man talar om - inte med. ", Henrik Höjer: Möt Mattias Gardell - Hedningen som försvarar politisk islam , Forskning & Framsteg , No. 2, 2007
  10. ↑ "ett slags socialdemokrati, om än med moralkonservativa inslag", Bin Ladin i våra hjärtan , 2005, page 146
  11. ↑ "Det är lammande att Uppsala Universitet, som ska vara en plats för Kritiskt tänkande och skarpa hjärnor, ger Vilks en platform. Men så gav också Uppsala antisemiter utrymme på 1930-talet. ”, Quoted from: Niklas Skeri: “ Varför vill han förnedra oss? ” Uppsala Nya Tidning , 14 May 2010
  12. ↑ Please Hammagren: ”Det var rena avrättningar” , Svenska Dagbladet , June 3, 2010
  13. ↑ Mattias Gardell: " Bortom offer och terrorist "
  14. ↑ Reinhard Wolf: Prototype of a fanatical racist . the daily newspaper , June 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gardell, Mattias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardell, Hans Bertil Mattias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Solna , Sweden