Islam a political target in Norway

[aamirsaab]

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Try sticking to the topic please. That goes for everyone.

Including myself.

 

[Whatsthepoint]

Islamic conquests were not simply peaceful but also respectful to human dignity and any regular history book will tell you just that in spite of recent efforts to cast doubt over that period..

Please define peaceful.

 

[Bhabha]

The thing, is that people assume Islamic and European identities are completely concrete categories, separate and fixed. What about converts who are stuck in the middle? Europeans who have accepted Islam and in their right do not need to "integrate" into Mainstream European society, their rights are trampled on in the assumption that Islam belongs outside of the political imaginary of European society. Before the nations-states of Europe formed and drew their borders around the 16th-17th centuries, to designate their specific national identities, Islam had already BEEN part of Europe for more than 700 years. The Danish, the Finish, the British "identities" formed with the "sovereign" model, are recent phenomenons. I find this Islamophobia in Europe to be so blind-sighted by the huge Islamic past that Europe is actually built on.