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There are about 32 million Muslims living in Europe and forming about 40 per cent of the labour migration (Brown 2000). They come from different Islamic countries; they have different ethnic origins and traditions; they are affiliated to different Islamic sects; they are not only individually different from each other but are also individually different in their personal understanding of Islam. Furthermore, Muslims live in European countries that have developed diverse national histories, albeit entangled ones. European countries have possibly less in common than is claimed by politicians. Each European country has its own impact on migrants’ lives. To speak of Muslims in the West is over-simplistic (Haddad 2002). Let us wonder to which degree Muslims could act, think and believe in similar fashions. Let me be clear, ‘the Muslim’, as an archetype, exists only in our need for generalisations.
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Marranci, G. (2007). Faith, Language and Identity: Muslim Migrants in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In: Craith, M.N. (eds) Language, Power and Identity Politics. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592841_9
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