at least 80% English. I've actually met English people in France, Spain, Turkey and Portugal that still don't speak the language of the country they reside in." Yes, but they are ex-pat English, not Turks. They are guests in Turkey, and until they consider themselves to be true and loyal Turks, to genuinely consider themselves a part of the Turkish story, rather than harking back to England, then the Turks should not bother to ask the ex-pats' opinions on anything. It's not their country. If ex-pats feel more loyalty to their 'brothers and sisters' back in England than they do to their neighbours in Turkey, they should accept that they'll never truly be accepted. And no doubt the Turks would get rather offended if English ex-pats started to demand it changed its foreign policy towards the Anglo-Saxon world. The author is correct that the far right is rising again in Europe, as seen by the success of an odious xenophobic party in Switzerland. I will do my part. I will continue to try and persuade people not to vote for the BNP. But Muslims need to do something too - they need to try and dissuade the small number of Muslim youth that consider bombings a legitimate means of protest. More importantly they need to stop those trying to implement sharia law or principles derived form sharia law in the UK and other European countries. If sharia law is implemented, the fascists will get elected. It's as simple as that.