{"id":1925,"date":"2004-09-12T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2004-09-12T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T03:54:00","slug":"fear_of_a_muslim_europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/09\/fear_of_a_muslim_europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam in Europe: Fear of a Muslim Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n
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Could Switzerland go from 4% to 72% Muslim in less than four decades? A Swiss anti-immigration (some say anti-Muslim<\/a>) group thinks so, and has run ads in major Swiss newspapers with ominious charts warning of the possibility. \u201cWe think this advert is positive<\/a>,\u201d says Roman J\u00e1ggi, spokesman for the Swiss People\u2019s Party (who supports the ad but denies involvement). The group has also published<\/a> literature showing the church tower of Zurich\u2019s famous Grossm\u220fnster replaced by a minaret with the accompanying words, \u201cIt\u2019s a Question of Time.\u201d Muslim and anti-racist groups are fighting back<\/a> with a ten-day campaign to reach out to non-Muslims and counter the takeover claims with statistics from the Swiss Federal Statistics Bureau showing that Muslim birth rates are no different<\/a> than for other Swiss. This isn\u2019t the first time that groups have made this claim about the growing European Muslim population \u2013 such fears have been used most recently to push back<\/a> against a possible admittance of Turkey to the European Union. And right-wing activists in Italy<\/a>, the Netherlands (remember Pim Fortuyn<\/a>?), France, and other European countries have been ringing the same alarm bells. Quotes by people like Islamic history scholar Bernard Lewis, who say that Europe will be a Muslim continent<\/a> by the end of the century, and Pat \u201cIslam has begun to reconquer<\/a> Europe\u201d Buchanan feed the flames as well. Despite their strong reaction to right-wing efforts to discredit them, European Muslims<\/a> are becoming increasingly comfortable<\/a> with their fusion identity. And with Tariq Ramadan<\/a> (the scholar most noted for his work \u201cTo Be A European Muslim<\/a>\u201c) now denied entry into the US, he has a chance to continue his efforts to better articulate it.<\/p>\n

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Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n

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