1. Myths and Realities about Muslims in the West
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH
Confronting Islamophobia: Promoting Human Rights in Public Policy
KEYNOTE 
PROFESSOR JOHN BOWEN
Myths and Realities about Muslims in the West 
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3. Muslims in the West Three ‘reasonable’ claims:
Muslim immigrants will not integrate.
2) Sharia is creeping into U.S. law.
3) Islam inspires home-grown terrorists.

4. Muslims in the West Three ‘reasonable’ claims:
Muslim immigrants will not integrate.
Jobs
Values
Trust
Demography

5. Muslims in the West United States: 2.7 m. <1%
Great Britain: m. <5%
France +/- 5 m. <8%

6. Muslims in the West
United States:

8. Well-being US Muslims US Average Incomes >$100,000 16% 17%
Satisfied with life in US % %
Poverty “gap” Muslims/Average %

11. Well-being? Muslims/average

13. The Economist , September 5, 2015

14. Muslims in the West Three ‘reasonable’ claims:
Muslim immigrants will not integrate.
Jobs
Values
Trust
Demography

15. "Muslim Americans who subscribe to Islam are just as bad as ISIS.”
-- John Bennett, US Rep (Oklahoma), Septemmber 14, 2014

16. One view: Geert Wilders
Urged that the Qur’an be banned, likening it to Mein Kampf

20. Can US Christians accept Muslims?
45% of 1,000 senior Protestant pastors surveyed in 2015 say that ISIS
"gives a true indication of what an Islamic society looks like.“
(Source: LifeWay, a Nashville-based, non-profit Christian research group.)

22. Confidence in Institutions, Muslims v. General Public, 2009
 In your country, do you have confidence in each of the following or not? How about...?
% who say yes
Military Courts Govmt. Banks
French Public %
French Muslims
British Public
British Muslims
Source: Gallup Coexist Index 2009: A Global Study of Interfaith Relations, at:

23. Challenges and Opportunities
But aren’t Muslim women oppressed?

29. Women in lower or single House of national parliament (2/2015)
Bolivia 53%
Tunisia 31%
Afghanistan 28%
France 26%
UK 23%
Pakistan 21%
Saudi Arabia 20%
US 19%
Indonesia 17% (

32. Three ‘reasonable’ claims:
2. Sharia is creeping into U.S. law.
"Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women," April 30, 2014, WesternJournalism.com,

33. Muslims in the West Three ‘reasonable’ claims:
Muslim immigrants will not integrate.
2) Sharia is creeping into U.S. law.
3) Islam inspires home-grown terrorists.

34. Work to do for Muslims
"You have two choices: either hijra (emigration) [to a Muslim country] or jihad (holy war)," Anwar al-Awlaki.

35. Work to do for Muslims
“Am I not in a safer place, in the West, than in the majority of the so-called Islamic countries experiencing dictatorship?” Tariq Ramadan.

36. "Muslim Americans who subscribe to Islam are just as bad as ISIS.”
-- John Bennett, US Rep (Oklahoma), Septemmber 14, 2014

37. Source: FBI Database

38. Jihadist: 26 Right-wing: 48
More Americans have been killed in right-wing attacks than jihadist ones since 9/11
Jihadist: 26
Right-wing: 48
Source:
The Washington Post
October 2015

43. Motives
MI5: “a well-established religious identity actually protects against violent radicalisation”
Marc Sageman: “more religious education for these young men might have been helpful.”

44. Ideas have consequences

46. Suhail Alkaabi @swedaaan22
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#NotInMyName Since Islam means living in a peaceful environment between world
8:26 AM - 18 Sep 2014 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates,

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We Muslims condemn ISIS's horrible actions. These terrorist doesn't represent our religion. #NotInMyName
5:49 AM - 19 Sep 2014