| They inhabit self-imposed ghettoes,
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| | Council.Both Vladimir Putin, Russia's
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| subject to derision and worse, the
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| | president and Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's
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| perennial targets of far-right thugs and
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| | mayor, now take the trouble to greet the
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| populist politicians of all persuasions.
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| | capital's one million Muslims on the
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| They are mostly confined to menial jobs.
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| | occasion of their Feast of Sacrifice.
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| They are accused of spreading crime,
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| | They also actively solicit the votes of
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| terrorism and disease, of being backward
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| | the nationalist and elitist Muslims of
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| and violent, of refusing to fit in.Their
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| | the industrialized Volga - mainly the
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| religion, atavistic and rigid, insists on
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| | Tatars, Bashkirs and Chuvash. Even the
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| ritual slaughter and male circumcision.
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| | impoverished, much-detested and powerless
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| They rarely mingle socially or
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| | Muslims of the northern Caucasus -
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| inter-marry. Most of them - though born
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| | Chechens, Circassians and Dagestanis -
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| in European countries - are not allowed
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| | have benefited from this newfound
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| to vote. Brown-skinned and with a marked
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| | awareness of their electoral power.Though
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| foreign accent, they are subject to
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| | divided by their common creed - Shiites
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| police profiling and harassment and all
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| | vs. Sunnites vs. Wahabbites and so on -
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| manner of racial discrimination.They are
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| | the Muslims of Europe are united in
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| the new Jews of Europe - its Muslim
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| | supporting the Palestinian cause and in
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| minorities.Muslims - especially Arab
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| | opposing the Iraq war. This - and
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| youths from North Africa - are, indeed,
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| | post-colonial guilt feelings, especially
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| disproportionately represented in crime,
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| | manifest in France and Britain - go a
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| including hate crime, mainly against the
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| | long way toward explaining Germany's
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| Jews. Exclusively Muslim al-Qaida cells
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| | re-discovered pacifistic spine and
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| have been discovered in many West
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| | France's anti-Israeli (not to say
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| European countries. But this can be
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| | anti-Semitic) tilt.Moreover, the Muslims
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| safely attributed to ubiquitous and
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| | have been playing an important economic
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| trenchant long-term unemployment and to
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| | role in the continent since the early
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| stunted upward mobility, both social and
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| | 1960s. Europe's postwar miracle was
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| economic due largely to latent or
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| | founded on these cheap, plentiful and
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| expressed racism.Moreover, the stereotype
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| | oft-replenished Gastarbeiter - "guest
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| is wrong. The incidence of higher
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| | workers". Objective studies have
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| education and skills is greater among
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| | consistently shown that immigrants
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| Muslim immigrants than in the general
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| | contribute more to their host economies -
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| population - a phenomenon known as "brain
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| | as consumers, investors and workers -
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| drain". Europe attracts the best and the
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| | than they ever claw back in social
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| brightest - students, scholars,
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| | services and public goods. This is
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| scientists, engineers and intellectuals -
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| | especially true in Europe, where an
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| away from their destitute, politically
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| | ageing population of early retirees has
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| dysfunctional and backward homelands.The
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| | been relying on the uninterrupted flow of
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| Economist surveys the landscape of
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| | pension contributions by younger
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| friction and withdrawal:"Indifference to
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| | laborers, many of them
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| Islam has turned first to disdain, then
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| | immigrants.Business has been paying
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| to suspicion and more recently to
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| | attention to this emerging market.
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| hostility ... (due to images of)
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| | British financial intermediaries - such
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| petro-powered sheikhs, Palestinian
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| | as the West Bromwich Building Society -
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| terrorists, Iranian ayatollahs, mass
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| | have recently introduced "Islamic"
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| immigration and then the attacks of
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| | (interest-free) mortgages. According to
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| September 11th, executed if not planned
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| | market research firm, Datamonitor, gross
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| by western-based Muslims and succored by
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| | advances in the UK alone could reach $7
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| an odious regime in Afghanistan ...
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| | billion in 2006 - up from $60 million
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| Muslims tend to come from poor, rural
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| | today. The Bank of England is in the
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| areas; most are ill-educated, many are
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| | throes of preparing regulations to
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| brown. They often encounter xenophobia
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| | accommodate the pent-up demand.Yet, their
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| and discrimination, sometimes made worse
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| | very integration, however hesitant and
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| by racist politicians. They speak the
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| | gradual, renders the Muslims in Europe
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| language of the wider society either
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| | vulnerable to the kind of treatment the
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| poorly or not at all, so they find it
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| | old continent meted out to its Jews
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| hard to get jobs. Their children struggle
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| | before the holocaust. Growing Muslim
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| at school. They huddle in poor districts,
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| | presence in stagnating job markets within
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| often in state-supplied housing ... They
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| | recessionary economies inevitably
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| tend to withdraw into their own world,
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| | generated a backlash, often cloaked in
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| (forming a) self-sufficient,
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| | terms of Samuel Huntington's 1993 essay
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| self-contained community."This
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| | in Foreign Affairs, "Clash of
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| self-imposed segregation has multiple
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| | Civilizations".Even tolerant Italy was
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| dimensions. Clannish behavior persists
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| | affected. Last year, the Bologna
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| for decades. Marriages are still arranged
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| | archbishop, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, cast
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| - reluctant brides and grooms are
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| | Islam as incompatible with Italian
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| imported from the motherland to wed
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| | culture. The country's prime minister
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| immigrants from the same region or
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| | suggested, in a visit to Berlin two years
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| village. The "parallel society", in the
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| | ago, that Islam is an inherently inferior
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| words of a British government report
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| | civilization.Oriana Fallaci, a prominent
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| following the Oldham riots two years ago,
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| | journalist, published last year an inane
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| extends to cultural habits, religious
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| | and foul-mouthed diatribe titled "The
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| practices and social norms.Assimilation
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| | Rage and the Pride" in which she accused
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| and integration has many
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| | Muslims of "breeding like rats",
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| enemies.Remittances from abroad are an
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| | "shitting and pissing" (sic!) everywhere
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| important part of the gross national
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| | and supporting Osama bin-Laden
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| product and budgetary revenues of
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| | indiscriminately.Young Muslims reacted -
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| countries such as Bangladesh and
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| | by further radicalizing and by refusing
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| Pakistan. Hence their frantic efforts to
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| | to assimilate - to both escalating
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| maintain the cohesive national and
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| | anti-Islamic rhetoric in Europe and the
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| cultural identity of the expats. DITIB is
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| | "triumphs" of Islam elsewhere, such as
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| an arm of the Turkish government's office
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| | the revolution in Iran in 1979. Tutored
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| for religious affairs. It discourages the
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| | by preachers trained in the most militant
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| assimilation or social integration of
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| | Islamist climates in Saudi Arabia, Yemen,
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| Turks in Germany. Turkish businesses -
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| | Somalia, Pakistan and Iran, praying in
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| newspapers, satellite TV, foods,
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| | mosques financed by shady Islamic
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| clothing, travel agents, publishers -
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| | charities - these youngsters are amenable
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| thrive on ghettoization.There is a tacit
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| | to recruiters from every fanatical
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| confluence of interests between national
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| | grouping.The United Kingdom suffered some
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| governments, exporters and Islamic
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| | of the worst race riots in half a century
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| organizations. All three want Turks in
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| | in the past two years. France is
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| Germany to remain as Turkish as possible.
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| | terrorized by an unprecedented crime wave
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| The more nostalgic and homebound the
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| | emanating from the banlieux - the
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| expatriate - the larger and more frequent
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| | decrepit, predominantly Muslim, housing
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| his remittances, the higher his
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| | estates in suburbia. September 11 only
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| consumption of Turkish goods and services
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| | accelerated the inevitable conflict
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| and the more prone he is to resort to
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| | between an alienated minority and hostile
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| religion as a determinant of his besieged
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| | authorities throughout the continent.
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| and fracturing identity.Muslim numbers
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| | Recent changes in European - notably
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| are not negligible. Two European
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| | British - legislation openly profile and
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| countries have Muslim majorities -
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| | target Muslims.This is a remarkable
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| Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania. Others -
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| | turnaround. Europe supported the Muslim
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| in both Old Europe and its post-communist
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| | Bosnian cause against the Serbs, Islamic
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| east - harbor sizable and growing Islamic
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| | Chechnya against Russia, the Palestinians
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| minorities. Waves of immigration and
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| | against the Israelis and Muslim Albanian
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| birth rates three times as high as the
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| | insurgents against both Serbs and
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| indigenous population increase their
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| | Macedonians. Nor was this consistent
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| share of the population in virtually
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| | pro-Islamic orientation a
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| every European polity - from Russia to
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| | novelty.Britain's Commission for Racial
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| Macedonia and from Bulgaria to Britain.
| |
| | Equality which caters mainly to the needs
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| One in seven Russians is Muslim - over 20
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| | of Muslims, was formed 37 years ago. Its
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| million people.According to the
| |
| | Foreign Office has never wavered from its
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| March-April issue of Foreign Policy, the
| |
| | pro-Arab bias. Germany established a
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| non-Muslim part of Europe will shrink by
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| | Central Council for Muslims. Both
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| 3.5 percent by 2015 while the Muslim
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| | anti-Americanism and the more veteran
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| populace will likely double. There are 3
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| | anti-Israeli streak helped sustain
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| million Turks in Germany and another 12
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| | Europe's empathy with Muslim refugees and
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| million Muslims - Algerians, Moroccans,
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| | "freedom fighters" throughout the 1960s,
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| Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Egyptians,
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| | 70s and 80s.September 11 put paid to this
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| Senegalese, Malis, or Tunisians - in the
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| | amity. The danger is that the brand of
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| rest of the European Union.This is two
| |
| | "Euro-Islam" that has begun to emerge
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| and one half times the number of Muslims
| |
| | lately may be decimated by this pervasive
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| in the United States. Even assuming -
| |
| | and sudden mistrust. Time Magazine
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| wrongly - that all of them occupy the
| |
| | described this blend as "the traditional
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| lowest decile of income, their combined
| |
| | Koran-based religion with its
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| annual purchasing power would amount to a
| |
| | prohibitions against alcohol and
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| whopping $150 billion. Furthermore,
| |
| | interest-bearing loans now indelibly
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| recent retroactive changes to German law
| |
| | marked by the 'Western' values of
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| have naturalized over a million
| |
| | tolerance, democracy and civil
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| immigrants and automatically granted its
| |
| | liberties."Such "enlightened" Muslims can
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| much-coveted citizenship to the 160,000
| |
| | serve as an invaluable bridge between
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| Muslims born in Germany every
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| | Europe and Russia, the Middle East, Asia,
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| year.Between 2-3 million Muslims in
| |
| | including China and other places with
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| France - half their number - are eligible
| |
| | massive Muslim majorities or minorities.
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| to vote. Another million - one out of two
| |
| | As most world conflicts today involve
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| - cast ballots in Britain. These numbers
| |
| | Islamist militants, global peace and a
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| count at the polls and are not offset by
| |
| | functioning "new order" critically depend
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| the concerted efforts of a potent Jewish
| |
| | on the goodwill and communication skills
|
| lobby - there are barely a million Jews
| |
| | of Muslims.Such a benign amalgam is the
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| in Western Europe.Muslims are becoming a
| |
| | only realistic hope for reconciliation.
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| well-courted swing vote. They may have
| |
| | Europe is ageing and stagnating and can
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| decided the last election in Germany, for
| |
| | be reinvigorated only by embracing
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| instance. Recognizing their growing
| |
| | youthful, dynamic, driven immigrants,
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| centrality, France established - though
| |
| | most of whom are bound to be Muslim.
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| not without vote-rigging - a French
| |
| | Co-existence is possible and the clash of
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| Council of the Islamic Faith, the
| |
| | civilization not an inevitability unless
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| equivalent of Napoleon's Jewish
| |
| | Huntington's dystopic vision becomes the
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| Consistory. Two French cabinet members
| |
| | basic policy document of the West.
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| are Muslims. Britain has a Muslim
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