Take care: people—not The Islam > Muslims

IndiansPakistaniIndonesiansMid-Americas (Guiyana, Surinam)TurksMoroccansAlgeriansTunisiansEgyptiansIraqiIraniansSomalians

Cultural differencesDifferent theological schoolsDifferent layers of the Eur. society

Acceptance of difference Education in IslamSocial Cohesion‘Equal treatment’

Entrance Hossein Moskee, Friday 23-2-2008–mobile police

‘In ... we are accepted as Moroccans but not as Muslims’ (Casablanca)

‘In this country I have to leave my religion at home to be accepted. But if I have to leave my religion at home, I cannot come because my religion, that’s me’ (Afr. Christian, UK 2007)

all states have to compromise (laic or not) Religion > Heart, will, conscience

EU-Muslims need educationabout Islam (‘do we believe in God?’)

EU-citizens need knowledge about Islam (islamophobia)

Muslim leadership need training IN Islam: Theology

•Fiqh – new questions•Kalam-dialogue-hermeneutics•Knowledge of EU culture

(Enlightenment/Verlichting)

1) Worldviews: values, ideals (also for society)◦ Communities: churches, zendo, movements (animals), mosques◦ Freedom of organisation

2) Modern complex society needs social cohesion and virtues (Who will guard the guards?)The state depends on value-traditions and can facilitate them

◦ Infrastructures (unequal structures)

The state cooperates with Isl. organisations:

to help Muslims to become members of the EU states in their own right

for social cohesion

and for the security reasons

The troublesome discussion on Leitkultur, identité française, and constitutional values

Common values are not innate they have grown in history

Diversity requires dialogue (and education)

National representation of Muslims in EU-countries Pace laity, pace Landeshoheit

Islamic States (e.g. Egypt, Morocco) ministers of religious affairs appoint imams traditional education

Mosques of guestworkers Turkish (also free Islamic movements) Mediterrenian: loose organisations (network)

Respect diversity and the nature of those other traditions—also in representation

Advice:high-quality education on Islam,Educate imams who are at home in Western society & academia and are authentically Muslim Dialogue instead of privatisation of religion