Tariq Ramadan and George Joffe

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19 Apr 2006

Islam, Integration, and Europe

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Click here to hear MP3 audio of Tariq Ramadan\'s address.
Click here to hear MP3 audio of George Joffe\'s address.

The Institute continued its series on immigration & integration with an examination of Islam, Integration, and Europe. Professor Tariq Ramadan examined the integration of Muslims in Europe and Islam’s compatibility with European values. Professor Ramadan is a Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony’s Oxford, a leading Swiss imam, and one of the Time Magazine “100 Innovators” of the new century. Professor George Joffé then discussed the experience of Europe’s Muslims and the impact of events in the wider Muslim world. Professor Joffé is a former Director of Studies at Chatham House (RIIA), and a leading expert on the Middle East, North Africa, migrant communities and transnational violence, and currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University.

This seminar is particularly timely. In March, Interior Ministers of the six largest EU member states agreed on a need for a mandatory “integration contract” under which migrants would be compelled to accept the values of the Union and learn the local language. Earlier in March, the Netherlands introduced a mandatory to gauge prospective migrants’ ability to tolerate liberal society. This month, the US State Department said poor integration of Muslim minorities in Europe poses a security risk for the US, and that unemployment and discrimination create an \'audience\' for extremist messages.

See the April JHA newsletter by clicking on http://www.iiea.com/newsletter/april2006/jhaapril06.html.

Professor Tariq Ramadan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Lokahi Foundation and Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and has taught at Freiburg University, the Kroc Institute, and the University of Notre Dame. Time Magazine described Tariq Ramadan as "the leading Islamic thinker among Europe\'s second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants", and nominated him on of the 100 Innovators of the 21st Century. He is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928.

Professor George Joffe is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University, and former Director of Studies at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London (Chatham House). He specialises in the Middle East and North Africa and is currently studying connections between migrant communities and trans/national violence in Europe.

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