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Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=0&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=623&PID=0&IID=2606&TTL=Muslims_and_Jews_in_Switzerland

Muslims and Jews in Switzerland

[Institute for Global Jewish Affairs] Simon Erlanger - The Muslim population in Switzerland has increased rapidly from 16,353 in 1970 to an estimated 400,000 persons today, while the general population grew from around 6 million to 7.6 million. The Jewish community today is some 18,000 strong, a number that has not changed since the 1950s. There have been no anti-Jewish hate crimes. Kurds, Turks, and Bosnians tend to be more secular and friendlier toward Jews than Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East. However, there is a growing radicalization of disaffected Muslim youth, with Islamism gaining ground among certain groups. The writer teaches Jewish history at the University of Lucerne.

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