Throughout history, various religions and cultures have fought each other, mixed, developed and changed. The emergence of the first civilisations shows that these initially were not as modern as we know them today, but that in their own ways they enabled the existence of all the important institutions organised for the benefit of humankind.
As the cradle of Western civilisation, Europe has undergone turbulent demographic changes: on the one hand, migration and the ageing of the European population or a decline in birth rate, and on the other hand, Muslim population growth due to war in the Middle East.
Demographic changes have occurred and are still underway in Western civilisation which require substantial changes in state institutions in order to facilitate the integration of migrants within the framework of the European legal order and simultaneously maintain established human rights in Western civilisation.
European civilisation is based on a high level of welfare and security, social cohesion, environmental protection, a high level of solidarity and justice, and provides foundations for realising fundamental human rights. European civilisation is the home of the principle of gender equality between women and men. Women and men are protected equally before the law and treated equally in every aspect of European society. Islamic legal culture does not share the ideology of European legal culture, but puts women in an inferior position to men and legalises the subordinate and unequal status of women in accordance with the Quran.
Migration has a great impact on the development of European society. A question is being gradually raised about whether Europeans will lose their fundamental values or will have to change them because they are not in accord with Islamic concepts.
Will we have to change our way of life and introduce new habits, rules and laws in order to facilitate the integration of Muslims into Western civilisation? Preserving European values will pose a great challenge in the future.
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