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Muslims and the Idea of Europe
Historically ,Europe wasn`t the state that Turks threatened ,but it was Christendom,though Europe was not then distinct from Christendom.In the contemporary European suspicion of Turkey,Christian history,kept in the tradition of intetnational law,is being reinvoked in seucalr language as the foundation of an ancient identity.
A lot of Muslims live for example in Bosnia,though Mazawiecki ensure that war in Bosina is a religious one and that Bosnian Muslims are not a danger to Europe.,but still he says that in the end of the twentieth century,Europe is still incapable of coexistence with a Muslim community.Mazowiecki`s assumption is that Bosnian Muslims may be in Europe but are not of it.Actually,thay may not have migrated to Europe from Asia,and racially they the same as Europeans and even though they have established and use secular political institutions,they just can`t claim for Europeaness-as the inhabitants of Christian Europe can.,so Muslims are external to the essense of Europe,so that`s why appears „coexistence” betwenn Europeans and them.For both liberals and the extreme right the representation of „Europe” takes the form of a narrative,one of whose effects is to exclude Islam.,though both sides are not equally hostile toward Muslims living in Europe,Muslim immigrants are also partly responsible for their practical predicament.…
Muslims are present in Europe ,but still absent from it,Europeans see Islam as a problem,because they conceptualize „Europe” in their own manner,Muslims are not the part of it.,so Muslim immigrants just can`t be satisfactorily represented in Europe.Tony Judt powerfully argues that the idea of Europe stand as convenient suppressor of collective memories of the widespread collaboration with Nazi crimes in East and West alike,as of mass brutalities and civil cruelties for which all states were directly or indirectly responsible.