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Counterterrorism and the Integration of Islam in Europe
Counterterrorism and the Integration of Islam in Europe

Author(s): Jytte Klausen
Subject(s): Islam studies, Politics and religion
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova

Summary/Abstract: Samuel Huntington’s theory of a global confrontation between Islam and “the West” is particularly attractive in Europe, where problems with Islamic minorities are regarded as local skirmishes in an international struggle at the heart of which lie values, symbols, and identity, and where conflicts over what to do with Muslims have reopened old debates about the position of religion in society and created unlikely political alliances.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 86-93
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English