Abstract
This article deals with the Muslim community in Sweden in view of the majority–minority dynamics with focus on how values, attitudes, behaviors, and practices of the Swedish majority influence Muslim minority communities and how majority society’s approach to Muslims and Islam influences both the relationship Muslims have with non-Muslims and the understandings that Muslims have of Islam.
Highlights
The ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis was much debated in the 1990s
It is pertinent to ask whether this Al-Qaida attack on US
It is important to look at various aspects of the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in order to understand its complex dynamics
Summary
The ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis was much debated in the 1990s. Promoters of the thesis regarded the 9/11 attacks as a confirmation of its truth. A second political factor in the conflict between ‘Muslim regions’ and the ‘secularized West’, at least until the Arab uprising of 2011, was the US and European support for dictators in the Arab world, including Hosni Mubarak, Saddam Hussein, Ben Ali, and Muammar Gaddafi. This support of the Arab elite left the political opposition in a state of powerlessness, creating a notion of Muslims as a global powerless minority versus the ‘West’ as a global powerful majority. To link the global struggle to the relationship between majority societies in the West and the Muslim immigrant minorities, it is important to regard the situation in each country with Muslim immigrants within a pattern of a dynamic interaction between majority and minorities
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