Encountering Arab employers disrupts migrants’ ideal of pure Arab Islam.

Evidence

By the early 1990s two-thirds of the migrants in Europe were Muslim, and European concern with immigration is above all concern with Muslim immigration. The challenge is demographic—migrants account for 10 percent of the births in Western Europe, Arabs 50 percent of those in Brussels—and cultural. Muslim communities whether Turkish in Germany or Algerian in France have not been integrated into their host cultures and, to the concern of Europeans, show few signs of becoming so. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 532 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Competition from other immigrant groups can intensify Muslim marginalization. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims:…, 330; Muslim immigrants are simultaneously included in and excluded from the ideological construction of Europe; Different migration motives divide Arab from South Asian Muslim communities in the U.S. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 103 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim immigrants are simultaneously included in and excluded from the ideological construction of Europe #complicates (0.72)
• Muslims dominate European immigration and resist cultural integration #complicates (0.71) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 532