The Hindi Post is translated by AFREEN NOOR on 14 Septemeber 2026 and posted on FB

This week’s cover of The Economist, London, is “Islam in Europe, the truth and the lies.”

Eighty years after WWII, when Russia imposed war on Europe (Ukraine) and the US-Iran-Israel conflict created an oil and energy crisis, a debate on “Islam” began in Europe.

*In September 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping convened the “Counterterrorism, De-radicalization, and Human Rights Protection Summit,” which also included Islamic scholars from around the world.

President Xi Jinping spoke with five Islamic scholars for 15 minutes each to discuss how to prevent their Muslim population from becoming terrorists and promote their progress.

*A Muslim scholar from Morocco told President Xi that after the end of the Ottoman Empire, Muslims became orphans and destitute around the world after 1923. Europe divided itself among themselves and colonized Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.

Muslims did not have enough money to learn new skills or establish international-level engineering or medical colleges. Israel was created from 1937 to 1948. Muslims were vilified in the media. It seemed. The Prophet of Islam and the Quran were ridiculed. Oil was sold for water, while Europe and America continued to prosper.

To relieve Muslims of this despair, these same people armed them and turned them into terrorists, and this trend continued since 1971. In the same vein, the US branded the Young Chinese as terrorists after 2005.

*In this issue of The Economist, through an article and a 48-minute podcast, has initiated a debate on Islam and Muslim immigrants.

The Economist concludes, “Dealing with all these challenges will neither be easy nor quick, but there is certainly hope. Muslims in Europe are assimilating into European society, just as Catholic, Jewish, and Caribbean immigrants previously assimilated into the countries where they settled.”

“The arrival of those older groups also created anxiety and worry about whether they would ever be able to become part of society there.” But eventually, they all found their place there.”

“Muslims will be able to do the same—provided division and suspicion don’t stand in their way.”

#NOTE: I would say that after 100-150 years (1886), the world has changed rapidly for Muslims in the last 10-15 years. We hope that Europe will also give Muslims a place in society, just as it has given to Catholics, Jews, and Caribbean immigrants.