Europe and Islam: Internalizing the External ‘Threat’

Europe and Islam: Internalizing the External ‘Threat’

This article will first characterize the nature of the Islamic ‘threat’ facing modern day Europe, by arguing that such ‘threats’ are fed by the forces of internalization. By specifically focusing on case studies found in Jytte Klausen’s “The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe”, this article will take as its departure point the basis that “Europeans tend to ignore the fact that their established norms and policies are not necessarily secular, but reflects long-standing practices that were instituted in order to appease national churches”. Three facets of European society will be examined; national laws, media coverage, and politicians and their actions.




 
 
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Hodiwala, Naozad

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; 2008: RERA V4:2 Summer 2008 (backfile abstracts)

2562-8429

10.22215/cjers.v4i2

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

2008-08-01

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Peer-reviewed Article