Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

by Reza Aslan

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The problem with this argument is that most Muslims living in Europe are already fairly well integrated into European society. European Muslims, especially second- and third-generation immigrants, speak European languages, take European university degrees, and live by and large as Europeans. Islam in Europe has so thoroughly absorbed European ideals of religious and cultural pluralism, of individualism and human rights, of liberalism and modernity that scholars often speak of a wholly new and culturally distinct form of European Islam, which Bassam Tibi calls “Euro-Islam.”

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“There is no such thing as becoming German. You either are or you are not.”

This is not as true in America