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ft.com - 10/23/2009
Immigrant Muslims in Belleville
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Two Muslim women talk amid the crowd in a Belleville cafe Anyone wanting to understand the situation of Muslims in Europe should visit Belleville. The rundown Parisian neighbourhood just east of the city centre is packed with couscous restaurants, Islamic bookshops and French citizens of Arab ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  France's Integrating Muslims

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France's Integrating Muslims
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Gareth Williams notices some encouraging reporting: The birthrate of Muslims in France is also converging on the mean. It's been falling since the early-1980s and now stands at 2.5 versus 2.0 (interestingly the birthrate in the Maghreb is 1.8). In the next few decades France's Muslim population will grow to be a larger minority, but nevertheless still a small one. Increasingly Islamic traditions are being frenchified: weddings in mosques where the bride wears white, carries a bouquet and holds hands with the groom. One French ...

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Infidel753 — ... Paris-based writer Simon Kuper recently took an updated look at this problem, and found a very different picture. First, Muslim minorities in Eruope have not proven immune to the demographic transition which has swept the Third World and more recently arrived even in the Islamic lands: ...

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