European Muslims Issue Under The Context Of World Politics

Since the invading of Moors to the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century, the clash between Islamic civilization and western civilization has lasted for more than 1000 years. The terrorism attack of September 11 is one of the extreme cases of the clash. With the coming of more and more Muslims settlers, Europe becomes the new front line of the interaction between the two civilizations. Are there any possibilities that the two civilizations stay harmoniously with each other? This thesis tries to take the case of the relations between European Muslim community and the native community of this area as a constructive sample for searching feasible ways to building harmonious relations between the two great civilizations.With the literature research approach and the sampling approach, the thesis first analyzes how the Muslims in Europe make good use of the local political and social resources to protect their legal rights, then tries to research the clashes between the Muslims community and the native community, the internal and international causes of these clashes. In the last part of this thesis, the author brings forward some feasible second best strategies for building the harmonious relations between the two communities. These analyses and viewpoints in this thesis may be helpful for the studies on the relations between the Islamic world and the western world, which is one of the most critical issues of contemporary world politics.