This book systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in the European Social Survey and other international, open sources, on the problems of internal security and social policy in Europe for the Muslim and the non-Muslim populations in Europe. It is the attempt to try to present an interpretation pattern for the complex reality of poverty; social exclusion, religious and societal values, and day to day contact of different population groups in Europe with the law. The optimistic results are in line with recent quantitative research results, which maintain that instead of engaging in a culturalist discourse about the general "disadvantages" of Islam, Europe rather should talk about economic-growth-enhancing migration, property rights, discrimination against minorities on the labor markets, and that by and large, Islam as such is well compatible with democracy and economic growth. If there is anything as "integration deficits" of the Muslim communities in Europe vis-à-vis the law, defined in this study along ESS (European Social Survey) indicators of the "shadow economy," document fraud as well as indicators of lack of trust in the police and in European institutions, these deficits are caused rather by market imperfections and market failures in the European political economy, largely characterized by state intervention, and not by any intrinsic destabilizing or simply "evil" "character traits" of Muslims. In many ways, the polarizing events in France are a kind of laboratory and testing ground for our theories - high state sector involvement, a mediocre Lisbon performance, and a high, increasing poverty among the country's Muslims, which all contribute to rising social tensions, violence and protest in the banlieues. Apart from presenting data from the European Social Survey, Tausch and associates evaluate and compare their country level ESS aggregate research results with other research materials, derived from cross-national political science and value research. Thus, a variety of results and methods are presented - aggregations of survey results at the national level, cross-national comparisons of these survey results with cross-national political science data; factor analyses of the opinion and civic culture structure of the totality of Muslims and non-Muslims in all of Europe, multiple regressions of the determinants of their trust in the police, in democracy, and in personal happiness, and a re-linking of the "Muslim Calvinist" results with new global level data about migration, Islam, and national well-being. At the end of this exercise of quantitative political science, Tausch and associates arrive at the conclusion that Islamophobia is baseless, and that European Muslims, above all, deserve economic freedom, markets and respect
