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The Muslim Question in Europe: Political Controversies and Public Philosophies
Peter O'Brien
2016
An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigration—which continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and terrorism—are a clash between "Islam and the West." Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-Europeantensions.
O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and postmodernism. These three broadly understood philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently disagree among themselves, it is along the same basic liberal, nationalist, and postmodern contours as non-Muslim Europeans.
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Keywords
- Europe
- Europeans
- Humanities
- Islam
- Islamism
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- Liberalism
- Muslims
- Nationalism
- Political Science
- Political Science / World
- Political Science / World / European
- Politics
- Postmodernism
- Religion
- Religion & beliefs
- Religion & politics
- Religion: general
- Religious issues & debates
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