European identity can be redefined as a purely civic creed unattached to ancestry.

Evidence

To qualify as a European one need only embrace a new civic creed. The Muslim populations of Europe develop a distinctive variant of their religion, relegating Islam to a personal or private moral code while adopting European languages, modes of dress, career ambitions, lifestyle choices, etc. A core body of secular beliefs and structures comes to characterize the Muslim populations as much as it does pre-existing European populations. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Euro-Islam scenario: Europeanness as voluntary civic creed, plus privatization of Islam into personal morality.
• XREF: Connects to debates over laicite and the privatization-of-religion frame in the reader’s Islamophobia material.