Islam in Europe – Threat of Terrorism and Loss of Democrasy on not?
Islam is one of the four major religions in the world. The beginning of Islam as a religion is dated back to the 7th century.
Nevertheless, the people have many stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam. It is often looked upon as a “terrorist”, “extremist” or “fundamental” religion. Muslims claims, that in contrast, what many people think of Islam, it is still a peaceful religion, which does not promote any forms of terrorist actions.
But the facts speak for themselves. First, 9/11 attack in 2001 in USA. Madrid train bombings in 2004, in Istambul in 2003, in London‘s underground in 2005 – it has been terrorism point in Europe. Islamist organizations all over the world are issuing threats towards Europeans. In today‘s the Islamist terrorist group Hizbollah announced that it is preparing suicide attacks in Denmark and Norway. It is important, however, to stress again that there are Muslims of great courage.
The fighter, Islamic terrorists who fights in this way is believed to go straight to paradise if he dies and his enemy will go straight to hell. Many people who engage in violence within the context of political Islam do so, because they believe there is no other way in which their opposition and protest can be effectively expressed.
According to the different calculations there are 1, 3-1,5 milliard Muslim peoples in the world which particularly live all over the world. But mainly – in Europe, smaller part in America and Australia. More than twelve million Muslims currently live in the main countries of Western Europe. According to some statistics , Islam is the most actively wide religion, also amongst the mosteconomically developed peoples of the world, including Europe too. The Muslim states include stateless peoples and small organizations from the number of the states – forming peoples of the Cristian countries.
Last 20 years, numbers of Muslim immigrants in Europe is growing very fast, like The Economist have been reported (in 11/11 in 2004 ). It means that number of radicals in Europe is growing too. They have nestle into big cities of Europe, like London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Berlin, Paris and ect. and seeds they radicalism. Islam is today the largest minority religious denomination in Europe.
There are more Muslims than Catholics in the Protestant north, and more Muslims than Protestants in the predominantly Roman Catholic countries (http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=6950).
Like Steven Simon (a former terrorism specialist on the National Security Council ) sad, that Europe has a large number of disaffected young Muslims in Europe. They’re marginalized, even isolated in some cases economically, politically and socially. This condition has been complicated by a wave of migrants that has come in more recently. And these people — some of them are economic migrants; some of them are in Europe as political asylum seekers, but they harbor some profound resentments themselves. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec05/europe_7-8.html).