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Muslims in Europe have replaced the continent's Jews of yesteryear as the largest target of discrimination and prejudice, according to a prominent Swiss academic and Islamic expert.
"There are new alliances in Europe against the Muslim presence, and people who were against Judaism are now against the Muslim presence in Europe," Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford professor and grandson of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, said Friday at a seminar at Istanbul Bilgi University.
"[These discriminatory European attitudes] are not only about Islamism; they are about a power struggle. It is not integrated into people's minds that Islam is also a Western religion," Ramadan said, criticizing the attitudes of some Europeans he described as "Islamophobic."