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The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe 1st Edition

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The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councilors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe--especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want.

This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities. Europe's Muslim political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and to replace secular law with Islamic religious law. Those are the positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with social integration.
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  1. ISBN-10
    9780199231980
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0199231980
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    February 6, 2008
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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"Refreshingly down to earth book...this valuable book may also force Europeans to question the self-image of their continent as an essentially secular place."--The Economist

"All in all, this is an extremely interesting book, not least because it tackles some of the most important issues currently facing European Muslims. If you want to know what European Muslims have to say about religion, politics, identity, social integration, multiculturalism and foreign policy, then I recommend you read this book."--The Muslim News, June 2006

"The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe is a timely contributions to the 'Muslims in the West' literature, which poses questions that have not been addressed before... Overall, The Islamic Challenge's cross-national study contributes important insights."--Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

"Klausen's survey presents a useful counterpoint to the now-hackneyed image of disaffected Muslim youth."--World Policy Journal

"[The Islamic Challenge] clearly sketches the main contours of the emerging institutions, debates and adaptations within the Muslim populations. It also skillfully explores the key Muslim demands and reactions to them...and indicated major cross-national differences...an important book."--Contemporary Islam

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0199231982
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (February 6, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780199231980
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199231980
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
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Klemens Metternich
5.0 out of 5 stars The Islamic Challenge - Lives up to its title
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2009
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The Islamic Challenge is one of the best books I have read this year, so far. Sorting out the various countries of Europe and the Muslims nations involved, the book shows the variances in the degree of integration expected of the Islamic immigrants into Europe and the United Kingdom, as well as the degree of integration shown by the immigrants thus far in each country. While Europe has shown fair strides in its attempts to put aside multiculturalism and accept the immigrants as new citizens, it is suggested that the U.K appears to lag behind in this area and shows a reluctance to move away from a multiculturalism that impedes integration.
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Dr. Michael Blume
5.0 out of 5 stars Important "translation"
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2006
Europe is facing a quickly growing muslim minority. How democracy and this minority will cope is a question with historical and worldwide implications. But the responsibility for that is not yet widely acknowledged. And until now, the book market wasn't a help that often.

How many books and articles have been written about muslims and their building political elites in europe on the basis of historical or political speculation? I think, too many. For a long time I longed for one that was a) based on sound political sciences instead of wishful thinking (pro or contra Islam) and b) helpful in practical questions.

Jytte Klausen (from the Center for European Studies, Brandeis University, Boston) did it! Herself from Danish origin, she did the nearest thing: not just reading and surmising, but traveling time and again to the different European countries, staying for some time in the larger ones, speaking with competent muslims and non-muslims alike (in mosques and families as well as in universities and parliaments) and flanking all that with empirical questionaires and interviews.

In reading, you learn about the emergence of the new "muslim elite" in Europe, chances as well as hindrances and dangers - and all that in a comprehensive and comparative perspective, which has apparently grown and won through the workplaces in the US and different European countries.

And the fifth Amazon-star goes for style. The book is not just sound and interesting, but also good to read - you kind of join the travels and interviews, and you enjoy it. A must-read for people who see the european and global demographic and democratic challenges!
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Wisdom of Athena
4.0 out of 5 stars Originally to be entitled
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2007
Even after the dozens of deaths and charred remains of embassies in the wake of the publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Klausen (based on her by-line biography at [...]) was still planning to call this book "Peaceful Jihad", which would have been amongst the most ironic titles in publishing history.

That said, the book does offer an outstanding view of modern Islamic opinion in Europe. It certainly dispels the simplistic view of Islam as a monolith, but even with the diversity of opinion it demonstrates very little common ground with Western Leitkultur.

Many Muslims herein seemingly fail to grasp that unfettered free expression, a secular civil society and freedom to abandon tradition are those fundamentals what allow democracies to function. They ostensibly want their religion freedoms (which often involve imposing their will on others due to racial or ancestral links to Islam) but not the attendant freedoms for others which make their free spiritual conduct possible.

Unless Muslims accept public criticism and ridicule of their beliefs and more importantly recognize the right of people to abandon the religion and its traditions, there seems little prospect of respectful coexistence in my opinion, a view this book inadvertently supports.
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