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Title:Against Islamophobia : Muslim Communities, Social Exclusion & the Lisbon Process in Europe
Author:Arno Tausch, Christian Bischof, Tomaz Kastrun & Karl Mueller
ISBN:1600215351 : 9781600215353
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:150
Weight: .506 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - August 2007
List Price: 39.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Islamic studies: EUROPE


While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe vis-à-vis growing Muslim communities in Europe, there are hardly any solid cross-national data being presented on the real extent of the Islamist threat facing Europe, and on the social conditions that lead to Islamist radicalism. By and large, our rigorous quantitative results, based on the first systematic use of the Muslim community data contained in the 'European Social Survey' (ESS) all support a socio-liberal view of "migration" and "integration", compatible with much of the rest of current European political economic thinking regarding the future alternatives for the European Union, and contradict the very extended current alarmist political discourse in Western Europe.

Preface; Summary; Introduction; The Myth of the European Social Model and the three Major Poverty Groups in the expanded EU: Muslims in the West, and People in Structural Unemployment Regions and the Roma Communities in the East; Methodology of the European Social Survey -- Based Result; The Islamist Threat in Europe -- First (guess) estimates on myths and reality; Muslim Secularism in Europe or Ecumenical European Theology of Global Peace and Justice?; European Muslim Communities and the Lisbon Process – Comparative Results from the European Social Survey; Political Conclusions from the ESS Results for the European Decision Makers.