European Societies Versus Muslim Minorities: Between ‘Cultural Awareness’ And Orientalism
European Societies Versus Muslim Minorities: Between ‘Cultural Awareness’ And Orientalism

Summary/Abstract: “Though Muslims are not a novelty in Europe, it is the post-WWII period when they started coming in great numbers to the ‘old’ continent. Most European states then designed and launched integration programs falling into one of the two broad categories, the assimilationist and multiculturalist. However, with time it became obvious that European liberal values, freedoms, social and economic welfare do not impress many Muslims in Europe: physically living on the European continent they are mentally living in another dimension – in resignation permeated by dismay, resignation which more and more often spills into violence against wider society. The uneasy coexistence nurtured policies of isolation and isolationism, which ensued in a new kind of ghettoization in the urban conglomerates of Europe. The images of Islam and Muslims entertained by most Europeans throughout the centuries have been far from positive.[:::]”

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