Integrate? Europe's Muslims are damned if we do and damned if we don't | Shada Islam

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The new allegation in Islamophobic discourse is that even Muslims who appear 'well-integrated' hate the westReporting on the rise of anti-Muslim hostility across Europe means repeatedly hearing generalisations about Europe's 25 million Muslims.
59% : The EU's Fundamental Rights Agency recently released grim findings on the steep rise in anti-Muslim racism across Europe, with almost half of Europe's Muslims facing discrimination because of their religion, skin colour and ethnic or immigrant background and, for the past 14 months, also because of societal tensions linked to the Israel-Gaza war.
49% : We should be less "foreign", more European, adopt "European values" (just which ones is left unclear, but drinking beer and eating pork seem to be among them), get an education and then - and only then - actively participate in the political, economic and social life of our "host societies" which, according to Hungary's Viktor Orbán, are purely Christian.

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