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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europeby: Jytte Klausen  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.95 You Save: $3.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: unknown
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 305.69704 EAN: 9780199231980 ISBN: 0199231982 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: February 06, 2008 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councilors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe--especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities. Europe's Muslim political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and to replace secular law with Islamic religious law. Those are the positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with social integration. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Originally to be entitled Even after the dozens of deaths and charred remains of embassies in the wake of the publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Klausen (based on her by-line biography at [...]) was still planning to call this book "Peaceful Jihad", which would have been amongst the most ironic titles in publishing history. That said, the book does offer an outstanding view of modern Islamic opinion in Europe. It certainly dispels the simplistic view of Islam as a monolith, but even with the diversity ... Read More Rating:  - Important "translation" Europe is facing a quickly growing muslim minority. How democracy and this minority will cope is a question with historical and worldwide implications. But the responsibility for that is not yet widely acknowledged. And until now, the book market wasn't a help that often. How many books and articles have been written about muslims and their building political elites in europe on the basis of historical or political speculation? I think, too many. For a long time I longed for one that was ... Read More 
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