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Sat. Jan. 7, 2006

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Point/Counterpoint

European Muslims

To Integrate or Not To Integrate?

By European Muslims staff

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?

E-mail us your comments to euro_muslims@iolteam.com

A Two Way Process (By Ajmal Masroor**)

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>>

Segregation Not Integration (By Bashy Quraishy*)

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 Quraishy is 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.

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