How to integrate Europe’s Muslims Article
The beginning of the Article starts off with a tragedy story of a young minority man perhaps Muslim that was a truck driver, being beating to death by French police officers. This already symbolizes a part of immigration violence and a problem across Europe especially with the Islamic immigrates. The article by Jonathan Laurence, doesn’t blame this on religious difference, but from anomie. In this article he drives for Europeans to give equal rights to Muslims for them to engage with their society and political system. He points example of anti-immigrant in some countries in Europe that only cares about their customs, and which holiday they want to celebrate that doesn’t includes Muslim festival of Eid or sometimes Jewish day of Atonement. Recently there have been stoppages of immigration laws being passed across Europe like the most popular one the article uses to point out with Germany offsetting a judicial ban on school prayer by announcing equal access to religion courses for Muslim students. Lately it seems to me like Germany is starting to establish a religious liberty for Islamic people in Europe especially with the fact that comes from the article that now Germany is allowing German students to read Saudi-supplied textbooks in Saudi-run institutions. In other hand the article hits the ball left field with neglecting the integration help by showing an example from Britain race-based equality that only effect Sikhs and Jews minorities, but not Hindus and Muslims. To Great Britain they are still label foreign to the country. That’s not all though, towards the end of the article Islamist organizations became one the greatest affective defense for the Muslim faith, that branch out to countries like France, Germany, Italy, and even Britain. However it states in the article that Europeans have struggled to resolve the tension between rights derived from universal citizenship versus group membership, yet the...