From Islam and the West to Islam in the West The Building of Muslim Minorities Lepanto Battle Paris.

From Islam and the West to Islam in the West

The Building of Muslim MinoritiesLepanto Battle

Paris

Post Colonial Immigration• Algerians• Moroccans• Tunisians• Turks• Pakistani• Indians• Bangladeshi

• Emergence of Muslim Refugees: – Bosnians,

Algerians, Somalis, Iraqis

Algerian immigrants in Spain

Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Pakistani Immigrants in Greece

Iraqi Refugees in Denmark

African-American Islam vs. Immigrant Islam

Moorish Science Temple of America c. 1913

Ahmadiyaa Movement c. 1914

Imam Warith Deen Mohammad,

Nation of Islam c. 1930

Muslim Immigrants Pre and Post 1965

• Lebanese

• Pakistani

The Mother Mosque of America (The Rose of Fraternity Lodge). The first Mosque in the USA, built in 1934 by the Lebanese Muslim Community in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

There is a large Pakistani population in Brooklyn, NY.

Underground Islam

Mosques in the Basement, in Stores

Importance of Country of Origin

– Turkey– Algeria– Morocco

Dalil Boubakeur

Islamic Cultural Center of Boston, inaugurated 2009

Basement mosque in London

Praying at the Airport

Islam in Europe• France

– CFCM: Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman

• Belgium– Executif des Musulmans de Belgique

• Spain– Islamic Commission of Spain

Sir Riaj Tatary

Coskun Beyazgül

Mohammed Moussaoui