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Benedict on Western Islam

Posted by Sini

On this the new pope is quite right: Islam in the West must be taught in a manner that does not conflict with the values of Western civil society.

If Islam is not taught this way, popular pressure will ultimately force Western governments to curtail immigration from Islamic nations. Or condition residency and citizenship on the acceptance of a code of civil values.

But can a democratic state constitutionally regulate the teaching of a religion? This would be impossible in the U.S., and I suspect it would be quite hard in Europe as well.

Would "Euro-Islam" have any legitimacy in the Muslim world outside of Europe? And if not, would it really have a future within Europe?

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