Religious Fundamentalism and Hostility against Out-groups: A Comparison of Muslims and Christians in Western Europe

Koopmans, Ruud

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2014.935307

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“…One of the most striking and much-debated aspects of immigration to Western Europe lies in the norms and values that migrants have (Koopmans 2015). Whereas norms and values in the Western world have become considerably more liberal over the past decades, many non-Western migrants originate from Muslim countries where norms and values generally are traditional.…”

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Determinants of cultural assimilation in the second generation. A longitudinal analysis of values about marriage and sexuality among Moroccan and Turkish migrants

Kalmijn

Kraaykamp

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Determinants of cultural assimilation in the second generation. A longitudinal analysis of values about marriage and sexuality among Moroccan and Turkish migrants

Kalmijn

Kraaykamp

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…8 Individual-level data on public opinion is often used to test explanatory models for inter-group relations and hostility to outgroups of immigrant origin (e.g. Strabac and Listhaug 2008;van der Noll and Saroglu 2015) or from other religions (Koopmans 2015). By contrast, our research objective in analysing cross-national survey data is to verify the size of the 'gaps' in opinions between the nonMuslim majority and Muslims, empirically.…”

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How ordinary people view Muslim group rights in Britain, the Netherlands, France and Germany: significant ‘gaps’ between majorities and Muslims?

Statham

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Taking four countries-Britain, the Netherlands, France and Germanywith distinct state approaches and public debates over accommodating Muslims, we study the views of ordinary people from the majority and Muslim populations on Muslim group rights. We compare their responses to questions on mosque-building, teachers wearing religious symbols, and religious classes in schools, to determine whether there is a significant 'gap' between the majority and Muslim minorities. We find highly significant 'gaps' between the majorities and Muslims over Muslim group rights in all countries, with the majorities less supportive. Importantly, it is a shift by the majority population against Muslim group rights that produces this 'gap' as the question moves from provision for Christians to Muslims, while Muslims hold similar views over rights for Christians and their own religion. In Britain and Germany, the two countries where church/state relations privilege Christianity over other religions, majorities especially support Christian over Muslim group rights. The British findings are remarkable, because a country which substantially grants and has the most supportive public debate for Muslim group rights, produces the largest 'gaps' between its majority and Muslims. We think this is due to political context, where in contrast to the Netherlands, there is no outlet for political opposition to Muslim group rights.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…45 A 2015 study by Koopmans indicates that fundamentalist views are widespread among Sunni Muslims in a variety of European countries, including the Netherlands. 46 More than fifty percent of Muslims polled believed that the West was out to destroy Islam, a figure that rose to more than seventy percent among "very religious fundamentalist Muslims. "…”

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Structural Influences on Involvement in European Homegrown Jihadism: A Case Study

Schuurman

Bakker

Eijkman

2016

Terrorism and Political Violence

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This article empirically assesses the applicability of structural-level hypotheses for involvement in terrorism within the context of European homegrown jihadism. It uses these hypotheses to study how structural factors influenced involvement in the Dutch "Hofstadgroup." Structural factors enabled the group's emergence and its participants' adoption of extremist views. They also motivated involvement in political violence and a shift in some participants' focus from joining Islamist insurgents overseas to committing terrorism in the Netherlands. Finally, structural factors precipitated an actual terrorist attack. No support is found for the frequently encountered argument that discrimination and exclusion drive involvement in European homegrown jihadism. Instead, geopolitical grievances were prime drivers of this process.

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Religious Fundamentalism and Hostility against Out-groups: A Comparison of Muslims and Christians in Western Europe

Cited by 193 publications

References 21 publications

Determinants of cultural assimilation in the second generation. A longitudinal analysis of values about marriage and sexuality among Moroccan and Turkish migrants

Determinants of cultural assimilation in the second generation. A longitudinal analysis of values about marriage and sexuality among Moroccan and Turkish migrants

How ordinary people view Muslim group rights in Britain, the Netherlands, France and Germany: significant ‘gaps’ between majorities and Muslims?

Structural Influences on Involvement in European Homegrown Jihadism: A Case Study

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