Framing Muslim Converts: Culturally Divergent, Convergent, Or Exceptional?

Framing Muslim Converts: Culturally Divergent, Convergent, Or Exceptional?

Based on her PhD study of Finnish converts to Islam, Linda Hyökki argues that understanding anti-Muslim and Muslim experiences between those converted from the majority community and those form minoritized Muslim communities, have both overlap and key differences that need to be recognised. Finland’s Muslims are ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse, as in other European countries. Suppose one asks who Finnish Muslim converts are an…