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As for what others thought about the integratedness of Muslims in Germany; quoting myself from 2005:

One 2003 study (pdf!) counts 3,112,000 inhabitants with a Muslim cultural identity, of which 2,365,120 (76%) profess a Muslim religious identity, but only 309,000 (9.9%) are organised. Even in the year after 9/11 and up to the Iraq War, the number of Friday prayer attendants is just 464,000 (14.9%), and that of daily prayers in a mosque 185,000 (5.9%) - not dissimilar to similar numbers in the 'Christian' population! Prior to 9/11, weekly attendance was about 9%, but that was down from 22% measured in a study in the middle of the nineties (see towards the end here).

We discussed another study of Muslims in Germany in April 2008; some findings: 48% never studied at a Koran school, low numbers of mosque-goers, 46 years and older is the only generation in which more went are pro-headscarf than women.

A little less informative was the multi-country study afew analysed in Europe Overrun etc.

Not unrelated is a subthread of the Terrorist thread, discussing another aspect of integratedness: the decrease of fertility.

So, this study is NOT the first of its kind; it's more that in the last six years, the media paid more attention to the paranoid images of Islamofascism-monger Islamophobes than actual sociologists.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:52:17 PM EST
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Studie zur Integration: Schäuble findet eine Million Muslime - taz.de Study on integration: Schäuble finds one million Muslims - taz.de
"Für Experten sind diese Zahlen nicht überraschend", sagt Ahmet Toprak, Professor für Erziehungswissenschaften in Dortmund und Mitglied der von Schäuble einberufenen Islamkonferenz. Weil aber in der Öffentlichkeit immer nur über die Probleme geredet werde, "gerät die große Mehrheit, die keine Schwierigkeiten macht, meist völlig aus dem Blick"."For experts, these figures aren't surprising," says Ahmet Toprak, who is a professor for Education Sciences in Dortmund and a member of the Islamic Conference convened by Schäuble. However, because in public, it's always only the problems discussed, "the great majority who make no trouble get mostly wholly out of sight."


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 07:37:27 AM EST
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