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The Muslim population in Europe is extremely diverse with varied histories and origins. [4] [5] [6] Today, the Muslim-majority regions of Europe include several countries in the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and the European part of Turkey), some Russian republics in the North Caucasus and the Idel-Ural region, and the European part of Kazakhstan.
Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) is a pan-European counter-jihad [1] organisation with the stated goal of "preventing Islam from becoming a dominant political force in Europe". [2] It is a political interest group which has been active in Denmark and has conducted anti-Islamic protests in the United Kingdom . [ 3 ]
Hijab and burka controversies in Europe revolve around the variety of headdresses worn by Muslim women, which have become prominent symbols of the presence of Islam in especially Western Europe. In several countries, the adherence to hijab (an Arabic term meaning "to cover") has led to political controversies and proposals for a legal partial ...
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within is a 2006 book by Bruce Bawer. It was Bawer's second book dealing with the issue of religious fundamentalism, following his earlier Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity , a critique of fundamentalist Christianity published in 1998.
Motadel, David. "The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939." in by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad, eds., Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers (2014) ch 1. Murray-Miller, Gavin. "A Conflicted Sense of Nationality: Napoleon III's Arab Kingdom and the Paradoxes of French Multiculturalism."
[3] [4] [5] The years 2014–16 saw more people killed by Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe than all previous years combined, and the highest rate of attack plots per year. [6] Most of this terrorist activity was inspired by ISIL, [6] [7] and many European states have had some involvement in the military intervention against it.
Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, called for a clear schedule for the international community to implement a two ...
The Cardinal of Bologna, Giacomo Biffi, also claimed that Europe should go back to its Christian origins to resist the "ideological assault of Islam." [ 4 ] Further, Biffi states that he considers Muslims as a threat to Italian cultural identity and as posing legal and social problems.