Journal

Europe and its Muslims

This article is published in Futuribles journal ,

Given the most recent enlargements of the European Union and the currently pending candidatures (particularly that of Turkey), the borders of the Union now adjoin the southern and eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia – all of them areas in which the religion of Islam is dominant. Even within its borders, the Muslim community is growing with the various waves of migration and the generational renewal of existing immigrants, but the relations between the nationals of the member states and the Muslims living in them bear the clear stamp of reciprocal mistrust and discrimination. How does the situation stand precisely? Jean-François Drevet offers a brief assessment here of these relations between Europeans and Europe’s Muslims and the prospects for their future development.

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