Summary: Muslims in Europe
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NOT JUST IMMIGRATION: The birthrates in many Muslims communities in Europe are among the highest, particularly in Nordic nations.
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On one hand there is the European Union, demanding Turkey reform its criminal code. On the other, a powerful group of conservative Muslims who insist such changes should include criminalizing adultery.
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Turkey got the answer it has waited over 40 years for Wednesday when the European Commission gave the Muslim country of 71 million people the green light to start European Union membership talks.
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BERLIN -- Anger flared across the Islamic world yesterday over comments by Pope Benedict XVI, with Muslims from London to Jakarta assailing the pontiff for implicitly linking Islam with religious violence in a speech earlier this week.
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BELGRADE, Jan. 23 (IPS) - The sentencing of three young Muslims to a total of  40 years in prison has raised new concern over the spread of  militant Islam in the Balkans.
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Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and housing and are often victims of verbal abuse and physical attacks, a monitoring group has reported.
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The murder of a controversial Dutch filmmaker has reenergized an uncomfortable debate over Europe&#39;s relationship with its growing Muslim minority.
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Suspected Islamic extremists were planning attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports. Subways were preferred targets because access by emergency crews would be difficult, the paper reports.
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The increasing numbers of veiled Muslim women are fueling the debate over the role of Muslims in British life.
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Turkeyâs election is being cast as a battle between Islamists and secularists. But the real struggle is not over whether the country should be more religious but over whether it should be more European--and more free.
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Terror experts in Europe fear the bombings in Algeria offer a prime example of how jihad could spread to Europe
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Violence in the Netherlands is under control and is no worse than elsewhere in Europe, but the continent must do more to deal with radical Muslims and share intelligence, the Dutch foreign minister said on ...
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Dutch authorities have confirmed that 13 young Muslims arrested on terrorism charges in the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh are members of a radical Islamic group with international links and a Syrian-born spiritual leader.
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A rise in the number of Muslims in Western Europe has intensified longstanding anti-Jewish sentiment in the region and acts such as desecrating synagogues are likely to increase, the State Department said.
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United Nations High Commissioner for  Human Rights Louise Arbour said on Monday that bigotry and  prejudice, especially in regard to Muslims, were common in  Europe and called on governments to tackle the issue.
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BIG TURKEY: Turkey has about 70 million people &#151; nearly all Muslim &#151; which would make it among the most populous members of the current European Union. But its birthrate outpaces most current EU members and could surpass heavyweight Germany by the time Turkey joins.
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Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.