بلجيكا: عالم اجتماع يؤكد ضرورة إنشاء جامعات إسلامية في أوروبا

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد عالم الاجتماع البلجيكي "فيليسي داسيتو" بضرورة أن تقوم الدول الإسلامية بالتعاون على دعم إنشاء جامعات وكليات لتدريس العقيدة الإسلامية في أوروبا؛ تلبيةً للحاجة الكبيرة، وسدًا للفجوة الفكرية في إطار الدعوة الإسلامية.

وأشار - في لقائه مع وكالة الأنباء الكويتية - إلى أن غياب المفكرين الإسلاميين في أوروبا أحد أسباب عدم وجود كليات لتدريس أصول الدين "العقيدة"، مشيرًا إلى أهمية أن يكون هناك حلقة وصل بين المسلمين في أوروبا والمسلمين في باقي دول العالم، مُطالِبًا دول الخليج وغيرها بدعم إقامة تلك الجامعات الإسلامية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Belgian academic says Muslims in Europe lack religious intellectual leadership

Belgian professor of sociology and researcher on Islam Felice Dassetto is calling on rich Muslim countries to assist in establishing Islamic theological schools and faculties in Europe to overcome the gap in intellectual leadership of European Muslims.

"One of the major problems Muslims in Europe face, except perhaps for UK, is the absence of religious intellectual leadership," said Dassetto who teaches sociology in the university of Leuven and has published three books on Islam.

In an interview with the Kuwait news agency, KUNA, he explained that the reason for this vacuum is the absence of Islamic theological faculties in Europe.

He said Gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia can help in the establishment of such Islamic faculties in Europe.

"They must help because the European Muslim must be in contact with the Muslim world," said the Belgian academic.

Howeverm, he stressed that Muslim countries must accept that Muslims in Europe will develop their own specific interpretation and autonomous way of Islamic thought.

Dassetto, who is a member of the Royal academy of Belgium, said he became interested in the anthropology and sociology of Islam after the first arrival of Muslim immigrants from Morocco, Turkey and other countries to Belgium in the end of 70s.

"It was a new fact in Belgian and European societies when Muslim immigrants started building mosques and Islam became visible and from sociological viewpoint if was very interesting because it was new reality," he stressed.