ABSTRACT
The politicization of immigrants and Islam that has issued from Denmark's political community and Danish society makes Muslim immigrant culture a political issue. The management of cultural heritage is an important element of socialization and is of course too important to be left to Danish educational authorities alone. Religious praxis is an integral part of society in the traditional Turkish village, but in a modern society religion changes its value. Culturalism, ethno-racism, ethnicism or new-racism will make it impossible for the immigrants to promote their own political alternatives. The dramatic changes in social conditions experienced by immigrant’s places them in a kind of permanent state of crises. The key motivations for participating in Islamic movements seem to be firstly, resistance to the deprivation of autonomy and its consequent loss of authority, and secondly reaction against the loss of control within personal or close social relations.
