Fundamentalism and out-group hostility: Muslim immigrants and Christian natives in Western Europe

December 2013   In the heated controversies over immigration and Islam in the early 21st century, Muslims have widely become associated in media debates and the popular imagery with religious fundamentalism. Against this, others have argued that religiously fundamentalist ideas are found among only a small minority of Muslims living in the West, and that religious fundamentalism can equally…

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Study about the rise of fundamentalism among European Muslims

December 11, 2013   A comparative study conducted by the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), results that approximately 65% of interviewed Muslims prioritize religious rules above Federal laws by western States. The study was conducted on France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Sweden. About 75% of the interviewed individuals would prefer the law…

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A Dialogue with Islam but with the denunciation of fundamentalism

In a speech, Cardinal Angelo Scola commented on the image of the boundary, proposed as the theme for the tenth meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Oasis Foundation. The two days of meetings also mark the tenth anniversary of the Oasis organization, conceived by Scola; the meeting and anniversary brought together some seventy scholars,…

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Trouble in paradise: The darker side of the Maldives

11 April 2013   Public lashings. Religious extremists seizing power. A gay blogger with his throat slashed. Few of the million annual visitors to the Maldives will recognize the hellish side of these heavenly islands. Following a miraculous recovery the blogger, now lives in exile in Sri Lanka. He misses home, but a country where…

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Antwerp’s new mayor expresses views on Islam

14 January 2013   Following a public chat on the intern site of Gazet Van Antwerpen, Bart De Wever, the city’s new mayorresponded toa question on his views on Muslim residents that he does not consider Islam to be a problem. The presence of Islam in the community is for him no different to the…

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