Muslims in Europe
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FT correspondents look at Europe’s growing Muslim population, the role it is playing in the continent’s economic and political life and the degree to which Muslim communities have integrated.
Comment: Europe can feel at home with 16m Muslims
Most concerns are overblown and in time may fade like those old fears about Italians in France, writes Simon Kuper
Women of Birminghamabad find identity
Muslim women, headscarf-wearers among them, are emerging tentatively into public life after years of invisibility within the UK’s highest-profile minority
Amsterdam’s soft approach to jihadists
Though El-Tawheed mosque became notorious because a Muslim killer prayed there, its tranquility and cosmopolitanism reflect the city, with its tradition of religious tolerance
Spain’s migrants 'seek jobs not conquest'
Eight centuries of Islamic rule bequeathed a unique heritage to Spain, which then spent the next five centuries obliterating traces of its Islamic past. But Spain’s 1m newcomers are motivated by hunger not desire to reoccupy former Islamic land, writes Leslie Crawford
Turkish guests become hosts in their community
In Germany’s former industrial heartland, the ‘guest workers’ who came to work in the mines are building one of the country’s largest mosques. Can the Muslims in Marxloh avoid the controversy that has dogged similar projects? Watch the audio slideshow
Where French Muslims battle to integrate
Racism and lack of work have created ghettoes in a town where native French find it easy to leave and which is notorious for far-right politics
EU Muslims: seeking jihad or democracy?
Critics brand them a unified radical force, but studies point to a diverse group looking for a better life, more concerned with domestic bread-and-butter issues than with Iraq
Britons ‘more suspicious’ of Muslims
Only 59 per cent of Britons thought it possible to be both a Muslim and a citizen of their country, a smaller proportion than in France, Germany, Spain, Italy or the US, according to a poll for the Financial Times
Religious fault line divides Europeans
Europe remains riven by attitudes to Muslims and to religion in general, with key areas of concern highlighted by a new poll carried out for the Financial Times
Head count belies vision of ‘Eurabia’
Most academics who have analysed the EU’s demographics dismiss the predictions of pundits who forecast the Islamicisation of Europe
