Magazine / Society / Euro-Islam / From the press | 02/05/2007

Islam in Europe

Islam is the third-largest religious community in the countries of Western Europe. European newspapers report on its relationship with Europeans, closely observe conflicts such as the cartoon dispute, examine the traditions of Islam in Europe, and question the possibility of a modernisation of Islam and its compatibility with European values.

Dossiers

Main focus of Wednesday, 21. March 2007

Islam's place in Europe

Different points of view related by the European press reflect debate around the question of integrating the Muslim religion into European societies. » more

Main focus of Wednesday, 15. November 2006

Islam in Europe

In many European countries, Muslims have expressed the desire to see their religion given a higher profile in public life. What are the Christian majority's ... » more

Main focus of Thursday, 6. July 2006

Muslims in Europe

On the eve of the first anniversary of the July 7, 2005 attacks in London, European Muslims are condemning the tendency to confuse Islam and ... » more

Euro-Islam

Le Soir - Belgium | Friday, 23. June 2006

Chemsi Cheref-Khan on European Islam

Chemsi Chéref-Khan, a member of the Collective for an Open-Minded Islam, talks to Ricardo Gutierrez about the evolution of Islam in Europe. "Reform is happening ... » more

Gazeta Wyborcza - Poland | Friday, 19. May 2006

Islam in Europe

Milada Jedrysik comments on a discussion about the role of Islam in Europe held in Warsaw and organised by the Stefan Batory Foundation. During the ... » more

Le Monde - France | Tuesday, 7. February 2006

Cartoon dispute - the views of Muslims living in the West

Abdennour Bidar, a philosophy professor in Nice, shares his views on "the profound democratic changes to Islam" in Europe brought about "by the daily reality ... » more

Die Welt - Germany | Monday, 13. March 2006

Geert Mak on European identity

Dutch author Geert Mak explains in an interview led by Jan Kanter that "the Christian world and its values, expanded by the Renaissance and the ... » more

Can Islam be modernised?

die tageszeitung - Germany | Wednesday, 28. March 2007

Zafer Senocak on Islam's hermeneutic crisis

The Turkish-born German author, Zafer Senocak, contends that Muslim scholars take a purely scholastic approach to the Koran. "In all Islam there are no Muslims ... » more

Jyllands-Posten - Denmark | Tuesday, 7. February 2006

Cartoon dipute - the views of Muslims living in the West

It was bound to come to this clash between the civilisations, says writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an interview with Orla Blog. She ... » more

Criticism of Islam in Europe

Der Tagesspiegel - Germany | Thursday, 8. March 2007

Mina Hadi on tolerance of intolerance

In an interview with Caroline Fetscher, Iran-born womens' rights activist Mina Ahadi talks about the multiculturalism debate. "Europe is still tolerant towards intolerance. People say ... » more

La Repubblica - Italy | Friday, 1. December 2006

Salman Rushdie is counting on women to reform Islam

In an interview given to the Italian cultural magazine 'MicroMega' and duplicated in the daily, Salman Rushdie, the British writer of Indian origin, shares his ... » more

Forms of Islam in Europe and how Europe deals with Muslims

El Periódico de Catalunya - Spain | Monday, 15. January 2007

Islam's place in European societies

The daily responds to the increase of Muslim converts among women in Spain. "Islam has ceased to be an exotic label. ... Western European societies ... » more

Dagbladet Information - Denmark | Thursday, 15. February 2007

Palle Weis on how to approach Islam in Europe

Editor in chief Palle Weis expresses his views in the debate about how to deal with Islam in Europe. "On the one hand there can ... » more

Frankfurter Rundschau - Germany | Monday, 30. January 2006

Integration

The issue of which prerequisites immigrants should be made to fulfil and what exactly the German "Leitkultur", or defining culture, to which they are supposed ... » more

die tageszeitung - Germany | Tuesday, 30. January 2007

Claus Leggewie on the difference between criticism of Islam and Islamophobia

Political scientist Claus Leggewie calls for the terms "Islamofascism" and "Islamophobia" to be barred from public discourse. The latter, he argues, equates the legitimate criticism ... » more

L'Express - France | Thursday, 26. January 2006

Kepel on the application of sharia law in Europe

Gilles Kepel, a specialist in the Muslim world, explains in an interview with Eric Conan and Christian Makarian how Europe has become a 'land of Islam', a ... » more

El País - Spain | Thursday, 26. January 2006

An exhibition on Islam's place

"How is Muslim spirituality experienced in Dakar, or the separation between Church and State in Istanbul? What is Muslim life like in Marrakech, or how ... » more

Süddeutsche Zeitung - Germany | Monday, 20. March 2006

Feridun Zaimoglu's "Black Virgins"

Peter Laudenbach comments on the first performance of the play "Black Virgins" in Berlin. The play is based on a series of interviews which Turkish-German ... » more

The charisma of Euro-Islam

Vasabladet - Finland | Friday, 17. February 2006

Islam in Europe

The old distinction between "us in the West" and "them in the East" has disappeared, writes Dennis Rundt. "There can be more common ground between ... » more

Die Welt - Germany | Friday, 17. February 2006

Euro-Islam

It's not only the cartoons that are making Europe the "object of hate of the Muslim world", writes Mariam Lau. It's also Europe's growing self-confidence. ... » more

The tradition and history of Euro-Islam

El Diario Vasco - Spain | Monday, 26. February 2007

Juan José Tamayo on the Mosque of Cordoba

The Muslim community in Spain would like to see the Great Mosque of Cordoba, converted into a cathedral in 1236, converted into an ecumenical place ... » more

Der Standard - Austria | Thursday, 12. April 2007

Ilija Trojanov on Europe's complex identity

Bulgarian-born author, Ilija Trojanov, who has lived in many different countries and is currently lecturing in Vienna, criticises the equation of the EU with Europe: ... » more

La Vie - France | Thursday, 9. November 2006

Mustapha Chérif lauds dialogue between Muslims and Christians

The Algerian philosopher Mustapha Chérif was received upon his request by Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday, November 11th. The previous day he had published an ... » more

The Islamisation of Europe?

Sme - Slovakia | Thursday, 28. December 2006

Maros Balo on Islamic fundamentalism

Slovak economic analyst Maros Balo accuses Europe of being less aware of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism than the US. He fears "that to prevent ... » more

Terve Moistuse Sündikaat - Estonia | Wednesday, 12. July 2006

The spread of Islam in Russia

An increasing number of people in Estonia sympathise with pre-Christian religions and ancient gods like the Estonian god Taar, Veiko Vihuri asserts, predicting however that ... » more

Interreligious dialogue

La Stampa - Italy | Tuesday, 14. March 2006

Historic visit of Rome's chief rabbi to mosque

Rome's chief rabbi paid a visit on Monday, March 13 to the Italian capital's main mosque, the largest in Western Europe. Editorial writer Franco Garelli ... » more

Muslims in Eastern Europe

Rzeczpospolita - Poland | Tuesday, 28. February 2006

Polish Muslims as mediators between cultures

According to Stefan Bratkowski, honourary president of the Polish Journalists Association, the country's Muslims, the Tartars, could bring the opposing sides together in the conflict ... » more

Tariq Ramadan: articles written by him and about him

La Libre Belgique - Belgium | Tuesday, 20. March 2007

Islam's place in Europe

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) recently refused to give the Islam specialist Tariq Ramadan permission to hold a conference on its premises. For ... » more

Le Soir - Belgium | Thursday, 1. March 2007

Philippe Vincke and Emmanuelle Danblon against Tariq Ramadan

Philppe Vincke, vice-president of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and Emmanuelle Danblon, his advisor, explain why they refused to welcome the Islam specialist Tariq ... » more

Tribune de Genève - Switzerland | Wednesday, 31. January 2007

The weight of the Muslim vote in the French presidential elections

The Swiss Ian Hamel has just published 'The truth about Tariq Ramadan', the famous Islam specialist. Jean-Noël Cuénod has written a review of this book, ... » more

Le Temps - Switzerland | Wednesday, 20. September 2006

Tariq Ramadan proposes another debate concerning the Pope

Tariq Ramdan, Islam specialist, considers that commentators are missing the point raised by the Pope with his Regensburg speech. "This is about a very European ... » more

Financial Times Deutschland - Germany | Thursday, 7. September 2006

Tariq Ramadan's appeal to Europe's Muslims

The newspaper publishes an 'Appeal to the Muslims in the West' written by the philosopher and Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in the run-up to the ... » more

The Independent - United Kingdom | Thursday, 6. July 2006

Muslims in Europe

Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University, says Western Muslims "have clear-cut alternatives faced with the new reality [in Western societies]: they ... » more

Die Welt - Germany | Monday, 6. February 2006

On the brink of a clash of civilizations ?

Islam expert Tariq Ramadan also calls on people to exercise restraint: "This is not the predicted clash of civilisations. This affair does not symbolise the ... » more

Dagbladet Information - Denmark | Thursday, 2. February 2006

Mohammed Cartoon Dispute

In an interview with Jörgen Steen Nielsen, Islam expert Tariq Ramadan describes the recent escalation in the dispute surrounding the Mohammed cartoons as crazy. "On ... » more

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