Point/Counterpoint
European Muslims
To Integrate or Not To Integrate?
As European Muslims continue to redefine
themselves in their communities, IslamOnline.net continues to serve as
a platform to introduce different attempts among European Muslim
intellectuals and activists to reevaluate their positions. The
European Muslims section introduces this debate between Bashy Quraishy
and Ajmal Masroor over whether integration is the best form of
interaction between European Muslims and the more secularized public
domains in Europe.
What do you think of this dialogue? Which
argument do you support?
When we talk about integration, we are
often told that minority communities must try everything they can do
to integrate into their host communities... More>>
But when we look at the European societies
and the way they want minorities to integrate, it rather reminds us of
a huge machine...More>>
*Bashy
Quraishyis the
president of the European Network Against Racism
(ENAR) and a member of the EU Commission’s
High Level Group on Integration in Belgium.
**Ajmal
Masroor is a member of the
national consultative body of the Islamic
Society of Britain, a grassroots organization
that works to educate and create awareness about
Islam through communities in the United Kingdom
. Masroor is a khatib and leads Friday prayers
in rotation in four mosques around London. He
studied politics and Arabic and holds a diploma
in counseling and a master’s degree in Islamic
studies.
