This rather interesting translation from the German delves far more
deeply into the multiculturalism & assimilation problems faced by
Europe, and recently high-lighted by the London bombings and the
French riots.
http://tinyurl.com/cp9atIt starts with a brutal "honor killing". It then goes on to discuss
the differences among the generations of Turkish and Kurdish
immigrants, and how the initial immigrants can be more modern than
subsequent generations, and how these later generations can actually
be less modern than their home country itself.
It has a slight Freakonomics bent in that it shows that at a deeper
level, the problems are not just the Muslim practices and history,
but also the well-meaning but disastrous German public policies of
religious freedom and liberal immigration laws.
Three heroic women authors are discussed throughout the article.
Here is one quote:
- She points to the Imam Reza Mosque, for instance, whose home
page - until a recent revision - praised the attacks of Sept. 11,
designated women as second-class human beings and referred to gays
and lesbians as animals. "And that kind of thing," she says, fuming,
"is still defended by the left in the name of religious freedom." ..
and another:
- "Before I can get to the Islamic patriarchs, I first have to
work my way through these mountains of German guilt."
Thus these folks have a two front battle: the patriarchs and the
German liberal policies .. and both are very hard to change.
It would be fascinating to have more in-depth articles articulating
these specific generational issues across each of Europe's countries
with large Muslim populations. I suspect there a great deal of "the
devil is in the details" here, and that each country will have
significant differences.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
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