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Article: Overhauling Islam: representation, construction, and co-option of "moderate Islam" in Western Europe.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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In the wake of September 11 and the attacks in Amsterdam, London, and Madrid, governments in Western Europe have initiated bold and controversial new policies aimed at the institutionalization of a moderate, Euro-friendly Islam. Official agendas range from relatively benign encouragement of the integration of immigrant populations and discouragement of "extremism," to the explicit attempt to impose a state-approved formula for the organization of Islamic communities. Despite widely divergent legacies of church-state relations and seemingly disparate nationalist traditions, European governments appear to be converging on a common solution to their Muslim ...