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| October 21st, 2010 | |
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| 01:36 am [Link] |     Пусть полежат, авось пригодятся NYTimes "A report by France's domestic intelligence agency, published by Le Figaro, estimated last year that there were 30,000 to 50,000 converts in France." Timothy M. Savage. Europe and Islam Crescent Waxing Cultures Clashing Today, approximately 50 percent of Muslims in western Europe were born there. ... One - third of France’s five million Muslims are under the age of 20 (compared to 21 per- cent of the French population as a whole); one-third of Germany’s four million Muslims are under 18 (compared to 18 percent of the German population as a whole); one-third of the United Kingdom’s 1.6 million Muslims are under 15 (compared to 20 percent of the British population as a whole); and one- third of Belgium’s 364,000 Muslims are under 15 (compared to 18 percent of the country’s population as a whole). ... More than three-fifths of Muslims in France and the United Kingdom are already citizens of those countries. ... Thus, it is not surprising that a survey conducted in France, for example, revealed that Muslim identi- fication with Islam was stronger in 2001 than it was in 1994 or 1989, with the number of those declaring themselves “believing and practicing” Muslims in- creasing by 25 percent between 1994 and 2001. ... As the French expert Olivier Roy has observed, the sociological background of western Europe’s violent Islamic militants fits a pattern common to most of the western European radical leftists of the 1970s and 1980s (e.g., Germany’s Rote Armee Faktion, Italy’s Brigatta Rosso, and France’s Action Directe). The cells tend to be amalgams of disaffected, European-educated, single males (often with university-level technical or scientific training) and work- ing-class dropouts (including jailhouse converts) who share a common, mar- ginal culture. The Personalities Who have Converted to Islam in France It seems that in Paris every day 10 persons are being converted into Islam. So far at least 400/000 people there have been converted into Islam in France. One of the reasons of the infatuation of the French to Islam is moral seeking against fall of the western values, because Islam bestows a sacred meaning to the daily life and emerges such as a light of guidance. Even though the French Muslims are in the minority but they have plentiful attractions so far a great number of the Christians there have been converted into Islam. The official number of the Christian that merely in France have been converted into Islam is estimated as 100/000 people. www.euro-islam.info There are approximately 3.5-5 million Muslims in France, representing 6.0-8.5 percent of the total population (58.5 million). At least 2 million Muslims have French citizenship. ... Muslims are also underrepresented in executive positions, but twice as likely (40%) to work in a factory than the rest of the French workforce (21%) ... Muslim organizations first became active during strikes organized by Muslim laborers in the 1970s.22 A 1981 law that gave foreign nationals the right to organized created a legal framework, inadvertently, for religious organizations. The 1980s saw the creation of many such organizations, two of which are still major actors today: the Union des Organisations Islamiques de France] (Union of the Islamic Organisations of France, UOIF) and the Fédération Nationale des Musulmans de France (the National Union of the Muslims of France, FNMF). The Union of Islamic Organisations (UOIF) estimates there are between 5 and 6 million Muslims in France. Le Parisien newspaper, citing UOIF estimates, said there were 4,000 converts to Islam in the year 2006. Assotiated Press The Interior Ministry estimates the number of women who fully cover themselves at some 1,900, with a quarter of them converts to Islam and two-thirds with French nationality. BoingBoing  |