Reports on Discrimination and Islamophobia in the EU

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Reports on Discrimination and Islamophobia in the EU ​

Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia

The report “Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia”, published presents available data on discrimination affecting Muslims in employment, education and housing. Manifestations of Islamophobia range from verbal threats through to physical attacks on people and property. The report stresses that the extent and nature of discrimination and Islamophobic incidents against European Muslims remain under-documented and under-reported. The EUMC report recommends therefore that Member States improve the reporting of incidents and implement measures to counter discrimination and racism more effectively. The report also includes initiatives and proposals for policy action by EU Member State governments and the European institutions to combat Islamophobia and to foster integration.

Firm political leadership is needed to ensure equal treatment of all Europeans, whatever their background. This includes:

• Implementing EU legislation and adequately resourced equality bodies;
• Recording and policing Islamophobic incidents;
• Implementing social integration and inclusion policies for migrants and minorities,
• Granting equal treatment in employment;
• Improving educational achievement;
• Ensuring equal access to housing;
• Encourage European Muslims to engage more actively in public life (e.g. in political, economic, social and cultural institutions and processes).

The primary task of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) is "to provide the Community and its Member States (…) with objective, reliable and comparable information and data at European level on racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in order to help them when they take measures or formulate courses of actions within the spheres of competence".

http://eumc.europa.eu/eumc/index.php?fuseaction=content.dsp_cat_content&catid=3fb38ad3e22bb&contentid=4582d9f4345ad