How the past proves that Islam can be part of European identity ?
Despite growing claims from the mainstream and many right-wing politicians across the EU arguing that Islam does not belong to Europe, it is not as foreign as it seems, as Muslim communities have already existed in Europe for several centuries. Bosniaks, Albanians, and some Greeks and Slavic Bulgarians, are native Muslim Europeans whose ancestors, through interaction with Arab and Ottoman-Turkish civilizations, converted to Islam. Islam was also recognized in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even Adolf Hitler tried to find sympathizers of Nazi racist ideology among Bosnian Muslims. Nowadays, the mosques of immigrant communities in Western Europe already converted tens of thousands of people of native descent.