Muslim minorities want equal opportunity but reject European family norms.

Evidence

Our informants told us explicitly that, whereas they desired integration in terms of equal access to educational and economic opportunity, they emphatically did not desire assimilation. German cultural practices such as consumption of pork and alcohol are, of course forbidden in Islam. The prohibition on the latter is ignored often enough even in predominantly Muslim populations. But it is the extremely rare Muslim who will eat pork. Although dietary choices may appear trivial, they can and do affect human interaction. More fundamentally, Muslim respondents found the patterns of German family life, · in particular the high rates of divorce and the decline of marriage, to be highly lUldesirable. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 87

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to notes on nationalism-as-civilization-mission (A Mission to Civilize) — the assumption that material access implies cultural conversion.
• QUESTION: If the empirical disagreement is about family and diet rather than economics, does any integration framework actually address what each side wants?