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| Low support for radicalism among Euro Muslims: report |
| 2010-09-17 |
| [Dawn] Support for radical groups is low among European Mohammedans and some leading groups with overseas roots are now cooperating with local governments and encouraging Mohammedans to vote, according to a new report. European groups linked to wider Islamist movements such as the Mohammedan Brotherhood and Jamaat-i-Islami now focus more on conditions for Mohammedans in Europe than their original ideologies from Egypt and Pakistain, according to the report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The report also cited tensions between "jihadists" and peaceful Islamists in Europe, saying some groups linked to the Mohammedan Brotherhood were working with police to counter bad boys. "By most accounts, support for radical Islamic myrmidon groups is relatively low among Mohammedans in Europe," it said. "Nevertheless, such groups have been central to the public discussion of Islam in Europe, especially in recent years." The report said supporters of European groups with links to foreign Islamist movements often showed little interest in their founding ideologies, which critics say are radical and anti-Western. Although some groups promoted bad boy views, others dealt only with religious issues or education, making it difficult to generalise about Mohammedan organisations in Western Europe. The report said several Islamic groups with foreign roots had changed their focus to European issues because of pressure from younger European-born Mohammedans with fewer links to the Mohammedan majority countries their families emigrated from. "Many of the younger leaders are pressing for an agenda that focuses on the interests and needs of Mohammedans in particular European countries rather than on global Islamic causes, such as the Israeli-Paleostinian dispute," the report said. It said most of the movements, including the politicised ones, such as the Mohammedan Brotherhood, encouraged their followers to participate in local and national elections in Europe. Some leading Mohammedan groups in Europe are loosely linked to the Mohammedan Brotherhood from Egypt, including the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF), Mohammedan Association of Britain, Islamic Community in Germany and Intercultural Islamic League of Belgium, according to the report. The Turkish group Milli Goros and Pakistain-based Jamaat-i-Islami have similar Islamist roots, it said. These groups have been working more closely with local governments since 2001, responding to efforts by officials to engage more with Mohammedan populations. Some have joined with domestic opposition groups to protest against the war in Iraq. A large but little known group is the religious movement of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen. It is strongest in Germany, with a dozen schools and over 150 cultural centres. The Saudi-financed Mohammedan World League and World Assembly of Mohammedan Youth seems to be losing influence because their strict Wahhabi Islam has little appeal in Europe, the report said. Groups practicing Sufism, a more mystical style of Islam, make up a widespread minority among European Mohammedans, but they are not centralised and often shun political activity. A British government effort in recent years to promote a Sufi council to counter radicalism "has been widely viewed with suspicion by British Mohammedans," it said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 ION WAFF > CAN PANDANIA [Nord Italy = former CISALPINE GAUL] BECOME AN INDEPENDENT STATE? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-09-17 23:01 |
| #8 So only 49% want to saw our heads off? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-09-17 22:54 |
| #7 Finland, Ireland, and Portugal seem to have the muslim immigration thing about right although the percentages could even be a little lower. Creeping disease rather than acute disease. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-09-17 14:29 |
| #6 However: This article is from Dawn News (Pakistan). Notice that no numbers are given in the article, the report is not linked to, and even the name of the report are not mentioned. Therefore we have no idea of what "low" is or even how they define "support." This is the actual report |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-09-17 12:07 |
| #5 Lets not forget the homemade blunderbusses for when police, firefighters, then paramedics show up. Even if one was to believe this report, then they must also admit that at some point social service programs are merely paying people to obey the law. Which makes continuous conflict not only possible but profitable. Which makes it an industry. Which is what Ike was warning about. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-09-17 11:17 |
| #4 Giving up on hard jihad ("Those damned kufrs are killers!") for the soft jihad of the law. Soft jihad includes car-b-ques, of course. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-09-17 09:19 |
| #3 Exactly g(r)om. Phueching their way to global conquest. It's a numbers game. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-09-17 05:45 |
| #2 No booms, just babies. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-09-17 02:40 |
| #1 "Support for radical groups is low among European Mohammedans" Sure it is. If you don't thing car-be-ques are radical.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-17 00:53 |