Even as an european it is quite hard to grasp any good view to the wider problems of Europe. I'm from Finland and these terrorist strikes of Madrid or religious problems in the Middle-Europe gains probably the same kind of substance as the 9/11 and the african-american issues for the people in Alaska.
We haven't had any major religous conflict or terrorist strike. We don't seem to have any radical religous groups. The muslim minorities seems to be doing rather well, and the second generation seems to be integrated rather well in here. Of cource I'm not an expert on these issues. This is what I have understood from the news and the articles what I have read.
What kind of problems the other European countries are facing? Do you have any better views for these issues? And what kind of solutions there could be? Especially the opinions from the european muslims would valuable.
Is there some kind of fundamental problems between the islamic and the european cultures? At least the radical islamistic beliefs have fundamental contradiction with the modern secular democracies. They kind of demand islamic teocratic state.
Anyway, there has been one muslims minority in Finland for a century called Tatars. Their religion has been seen as the finnish version of Islam. For me it seems, that they have had no major problems in integrating into the finnish culture. In practice they are finnish with a different religion and perhaps - with a somewhat different culture.
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One question is that if they have intergrated, why cannot the others? And if there is no any fundamental problem, that what is left are the practical problems, which with time and patience might verư well be solvable.
What are your opinions?
-BtD