Muslim immigrants in Europe.Muslims have been emigrating to Europe in large numbers for decades, coming mostly from former French and British colonies in Africa and Asia, countries such as Morocco, Algeria, and Pakistan. Like immigrants everywhere, they generally left home looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. better jobs and a better quality of life. Today, there are some 12 million Muslims in Western Europe Minimum estimates of Muslim populations in Western Europe (EU15 plus Norway and Switzerland) as a percentage of total country population: . As the articte "Behind the Veil Debate" discussed, some Muslim customs are crashing with the focal cultures in many European countries. Government officials have criticized some Muslim practices, like the wearing of full-face veils for women, as hindering hin·der 1 v. hin·dered, hin·der·ing, hin·ders v.tr. 1. To be or get in the way of. 2. To obstruct or delay the progress of. v.intr. efforts toward integration. At the same time, European Muslims have reported widespread discrimination in their adoptive a·dop·tive adj. 1. a. Of or having to do with adoption. b. Characteristic of adoption. 2. Related by adoption: countries. Whatever the causes, many Muslims have remained largely separate from mainstream European society. ANALYZE THE GRAPH 1. What is the difference, in percentage points, between the Muslim population in France and the Muslim population in the United Kingdom? (a) 3 (c) 5 (b) 4 (d) 6 2. About how many Muslims are there in Spain? (a) 900,000 (c) 700,000 (b) 800,000 (d) 650,000 3. Estimates of the number of American Muslims vary greatly. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. some polls, there are about one third more Muslims in the U.S. than there are in Sweden, making them about--percent of the U.S. population. 4. Macedonia, not shown, was once part of the largely Islamic Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire (ŏt`əmən), vast state founded in the late 13th cent. by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918. , which lasted from 1299 to 1922. Today, Muslims make up--of Macedonia's population, six times the proportion of Muslims in Denmark (a) 20% (c) 30% (b) 25% (d) 39% 5. About 70 percent of France's Muslims emigrated to that country from former French colonies "French Colonies" is the name used by philatelists to refer to the postage stamps issued by France for use in the parts of the French colonial empire that did not have stamps of their own. These were in use from 1859 to 1906, and from 1943 to 1945. in North Africa. About how many million of France's Muslims emigrated from North Africa? (a) 4.9 (c) 2.9 (b) 3.9 (d) 2 6. Discussion Question. What do you think accounts for friction between people from different cultures, religions, and regions? Is such friction a natural reaction or something that is learned? ANSWER KEY GRAPH EXERCISE 1. [d] 6 2. [a] 900,000 3. 1 percent 4. [c] 30% 5. [b] 3.9 6. Answers will vary. |
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