Make integration your goal, Muslim leaders told

European Muslims are not content to remain “separate and isolated” and moderate Islamic leaders must make greater social and political integration their main goal, the head of Austria’s Islamic community urged at the opening of a conference of imams and religious advisers.

“The Muslims of Europe want to be an active and central part of the societies they live in,” Anas Schakfeh, president of the Islamic Authority in Austria, told the gathering in Vienna. “They don’t want to build a separate and isolated society.”