The Muslim Question in Europe: Political Controversies and Public Philosophies

ISBN-13: 9781439912775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str.

Peter O'Brien

Opis

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-European"tensions.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."