Report: Political engineering and exclusion of religious conservative Muslims in Europe
A report released by Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) has revealed that a great number of bans against Islamic practices ranging from ritual animal slaughter to the building of mosque minarets, from male circumcision to women’s headscarves have been continuing in many European countries in recent years.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 04 March 2018
- Modified Date: 01:28 | 04 March 2018
Moreover, religious conservatives among the Muslim minority are almost completely excluded from the national legislatures. As such, there is a "representation gap" between conservative Muslims and their leftist representatives.
This ideological disconnect between the Muslim constituencies and their representatives can be observed in almost every continental European country, and it seems to persist across time.
Despite major improvements in some countries over the last decade, Muslim minorities are still underrepresented in the national legislatures of most Western European countries.
Unfortunately, the descriptive representation of Muslim minorities, that is, Muslim-origin MPs in the national legislatures, does not necessarily translate into the substantive representation of the religiously specific interests of the Muslim minorities.
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