par Torrekens, Corinne 
Référence After Integration: Islam, Conviviality and Contentious Politics in Europe, Springer Science+Business Media, page (153-169)
Publication Publié, 2015-01
Référence After Integration: Islam, Conviviality and Contentious Politics in Europe, Springer Science+Business Media, page (153-169)
Publication Publié, 2015-01
Partie d'ouvrage collectif
| Résumé : | In this chapter, I will provide a general overview of the current situation concerning the accommodation of Islam in Belgium. As Belgium’s national statistics do not include any information on the religious affiliations of the population, it remains extremely difficult to arrive at an accurate figure for the number of Muslims living in Belgium today. Consequently, the best we can do is to use orders of magnitude and estimates based on an extrapolation of the number of people who have migrated to Belgium and their descendants. These estimates have at least two major disadvantages. First, they assume that all immigrants from countries where Islam is the dominant religion are Muslims, as are their descendants, whereas in fact some of them may belong to other religions (certain Muslim countries have or had large Jewish and/or Christian minorities, for example) or be nonreligious. |
