Our Shared Europe Report

Executive Summary - Aims and Objectives

If Our Shared Europe has one overriding aim, it is to strengthen the bonds of trust between Muslims and other majority and minority communities in Europe, and to do this by creating more understanding and awareness of the many contributions that Muslims have made in history and in present-day Europe.

It is born out of a sense of urgency that something needs to be done, soon, in partnership with like-minded groups, and on a significant scale in order to have meaningful impact.

The more specific objectives are to:

• create a shared understanding among all Europeans of Islam’s past and present contribution to European societies and identities
• generate awareness that Judaeo-Christian and Islamic intellectual and cultural roots have together created Europe’s unique character and that this profile is one of its biggest strengths today
• encourage all Europeans to take ownership of this aspect of our common identity and to help reshape it for the 21st century.