Overview
Islamic radicalization is the primary cause of global terrorism and has been a prominent threat to international security over the past few decades. Islamic jihadists’ aim to wage ‘holy war’ against the West by taking extreme measures to protect their version of Islam, to fight against the Western invasions of the Middle East, North Africa and other parts of the Islamic world. This transnational phenomenon also stems from Muslim immigrants who have migrated to the West and have continued to struggle with adapting and integrating within foreign secular societies. At the same time, they are subjected to marginalization and discrimination from non-Muslim natives within their respective countries. As a result, these frustrated immigrants’ …show more content…
Relative deprivation is a theory constructed by social scientists to understand the social and psychological changes in which people take action for social change. Some sociologists believe that relative deprivation theory can explain why people join social movements, advocate social change or even become socially radicalized for a specific cause. Despite the ongoing attempts to initiate policies to include Muslims into the secular norm, Islamic radicalization continues to persist within the Muslim communities in European counties. Therefore, the link between marginalization and Islamic radicalization among Muslims in Western European society is legitimate within the theoretical concept of relative deprivation. This case study will demonstrate the various cases of Muslims in Europe who have fallen under marginal depravity; and it will also compare the Western European countries of France, Germany, and the Netherlands on how they interact with their Muslim populations after the events of 9/11 and the resurgence of the war on …show more content…
Followed by the UK, Italy and Bulgaria, with the Netherlands ranking in no. 6 with 1,000,000 (6.0% of its ' pop.). In Germany, “70% of the Muslim population is of Turkish origin.” Muslims of Turkish origin migrated to Germany since the end of WWII. In the 1960s in response to a German labor shortage, they were often called Gastarbeiter or “guest workers”, who were expected to leave Germany after their respective jobs were completed. However, half of them ended up staying in the country. According to a demographic analysis, Muslims are mostly concentrated around the industrial areas of “Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Munich, Nurnberg, Darmstadt and Goppingen, and Hamburg. Only a few Muslims live on the territory of the former German Democratic
Islamic radicalization is the primary cause of global terrorism and has been a prominent threat to international security over the past few decades. Islamic jihadists’ aim to wage ‘holy war’ against the West by taking extreme measures to protect their version of Islam, to fight against the Western invasions of the Middle East, North Africa and other parts of the Islamic world. This transnational phenomenon also stems from Muslim immigrants who have migrated to the West and have continued to struggle with adapting and integrating within foreign secular societies. At the same time, they are subjected to marginalization and discrimination from non-Muslim natives within their respective countries. As a result, these frustrated immigrants’ …show more content…
Relative deprivation is a theory constructed by social scientists to understand the social and psychological changes in which people take action for social change. Some sociologists believe that relative deprivation theory can explain why people join social movements, advocate social change or even become socially radicalized for a specific cause. Despite the ongoing attempts to initiate policies to include Muslims into the secular norm, Islamic radicalization continues to persist within the Muslim communities in European counties. Therefore, the link between marginalization and Islamic radicalization among Muslims in Western European society is legitimate within the theoretical concept of relative deprivation. This case study will demonstrate the various cases of Muslims in Europe who have fallen under marginal depravity; and it will also compare the Western European countries of France, Germany, and the Netherlands on how they interact with their Muslim populations after the events of 9/11 and the resurgence of the war on …show more content…
Followed by the UK, Italy and Bulgaria, with the Netherlands ranking in no. 6 with 1,000,000 (6.0% of its ' pop.). In Germany, “70% of the Muslim population is of Turkish origin.” Muslims of Turkish origin migrated to Germany since the end of WWII. In the 1960s in response to a German labor shortage, they were often called Gastarbeiter or “guest workers”, who were expected to leave Germany after their respective jobs were completed. However, half of them ended up staying in the country. According to a demographic analysis, Muslims are mostly concentrated around the industrial areas of “Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Munich, Nurnberg, Darmstadt and Goppingen, and Hamburg. Only a few Muslims live on the territory of the former German Democratic