[Does the existence of Muslim community put the international security under risk? ]

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would take this opportunity to thank my research supervisor, family and friends for their support and guidance without which this research would not have been possible (Acevedo, 1992,, 729).

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to discuss how the Muslim communities in UK, France and Germany became a threat to national security and how the migration patterns contributed to this image. The data is collected from various published sources including the online libraries and, journals and books. It is found that the number of Muslims migrated to France, UK and Germany is large as compared to other European countries and so are the integration and assimilation issues. In UK, a multicultural society has been established where the third generation of Muslims consider themselves belonging to UK naturally and find their roots in the British soil. On the other hand, Germany and France are featured by more assimilation than integration which depicts a thin line between the minority and majority communities. Whatever the integration style of the all these countries is, the overall perception of Muslims as being threat to national security. Such perception has been created due to the long prevailing perception of migrants as foreigners, the inappropriate education in the schools that view of Muslims as extremists, and the propaganda of ultra right groups against Muslims. The ill will of a small extremist group cannot be generalized to an entire Muslim population and the whole population cannot be blamed as a threat to national security. Having such narrow view of Muslim population needs the national efforts to help assimilating the Muslim communities well in the European countries.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT2

ABSTRACT3

INTRODUCTION6

Prejudice and Discrimination and Muslims' view as Terrorists11

Theories of Migration12

Economic and Labour Theory13

Network Theory14

Cultural and World Systems Theories15

Immigrant Integration and Assimilation15

International Study Policies16

Regional Integration as a Concept17

Theories of Integration and Integration approaches18

Supernationalisrn and Intergovernrnentalisrn18

Neofunctionalism19

Institutionalism20

Multiculturalism20

Is Multicutlurism Death?22

Muslim's Integration in Europe and Security Threat: Truth or Propaganda23

CHAPTER 2: HISTORY OF IMMIGRANTS25

Assimilation Challenges for the Muslims and the Local's Perception in declaring them terrorist25

Germany26

U.K28

France30

Problems of the Countries and Immigrants33

Germany33

UK33

France35

Identity of the Muslims in UK, Germany and France36

CHAPTER 3: SECURITY POLICIES39

UK39

Germany41

France43

The European Union and Fight against Terrorism43

Muslims a Threat to security?46

CONCLUSION48

Negative Image of Muslims Caused by Inappropriate Education49

Racist groups and parties Promoting Violence against Foreigners (Muslims)49

Blaming Whole Muslim Population for the ill will of few extremists50

REFERENCES52

INTRODUCTION

In almost all the world, the Muslim communities are now conceived as a threat to the national security after the occurrence of numerous terrorist attacks and activities. The direct link of Muslims to these activities is found in most and not all the events but the antisocial image of Muslims has taken its roots and is now widespread among most of the European states specially those where Muslims are in large number like UK, France and Germany. Most of the time this direct link of the Muslims with terrors has been created as the result of a hasty approach towards understanding Muslims and considering them terrorists without considering the ...