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in the 1970 in response to the which common feature of all
recession, and in subsequent currents is the belief in the
decades, most of the migrants ability of Islam in answering
who came to these countries the the issues political, social,
were family members of former cultural and economic
migrant workers, including problems of the world today.
Muslims, who benefited from The religion of Islam is
family reunification programs. innately a political religion;
A growing number of however, throughout history
Muslim refugees have come to and due to the developments
the EU since the 1970, and as a that took place in the Islamic
result of these developments, world and its relationship with
Muslims have become the outside world, the ground
increasingly prominent in the was prepared for different
EU since the 1980, especially in Islamic tendencies to re-
capitals and other big cities of emphasize and double the
these countries. (Enayat, 2006) political dimensions of Islam
and the political and
2. The Ideology of mobilizing capacities of Islam
“Political Islam” to face enemies and Use it to
Political Islam contains stand up to tyrannical and
religious ideologies, each of deviant rulers, as well as to
which claims to have truth and counter what they considered
certainty, and in many cases, to be deviations. (Ward, 2005)
denies and rejects each other.
These ideologies can be 3. Eurocentrism or Racism
divided from Salafi tendencies Man was part of a old pleasant
such as Wahhabism, which is system; His thoughts and
considered a conservative tendency, behavior were trapped in a
to liberation movements in limited worldview, and the
some countries and movements direction of his future life was
formed against Western colonialism more or less determined.
and influence and Zionism, Therefore, there was no need
