Islam in Luxembourg
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Muslims in Luxembourg are a super-minority together with: Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and Jews. Since 2008, Islam is legally recognized in the country.[1]
According to the NATO (North Atlantic Treatise Organization) report, there are about 4,000 Muslims in Luxembourg. Up until the 1970s, the Muslim population was quite small. In the mid-1970s, the Muslim population counted only 300 people, going up to over 3,000 by the mid-1990s. Since then, the population has doubled due to asylum-seekers from former Yugoslavia. These asylum-seekers were never expected to stay more than a few years.
Of the 6,000 registered Muslims, 65% come from former Yugoslavia: 1,900 from Bosnia-Herzegovina and 1,800 from Montenegro.
The Muslim community has no specifically-built mosque and uses the Islamic Cultural Center of Luxembourg as a place of prayer and worship.
Veil-wearing women in public is unexpected to say the least.
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- http://www.islam.lu/ (French and German)
- Luxembourg from: Anti-Islamic reaction in the EU after the terrorist attacks against the USA
- Third report on Luxembourg by the European Court of Human Rights (§ Muslims)
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