Via KUNA:
A 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.
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