the religious wars, which ended in France, for instance, with the Edict of Nantes in 1598. Following the horrors of the Holocaust, the norm was widened to include Jews. And with the civil rights movement in the US, this was further extended to black people and other ethnic minorities - legally and theoretically, though not in practice. There is still resistance to the norm's broadening to encompass Muslims, something evident in the controversy over the building of mosques in northern Europe, as well as in the "veil problem" in France, Germany and other countries. Some quasi-liberals continuously ask how we can be tolerant with people who preach intolerance - by whom they mean, of course, Muslims. A better question could be: to what extent are those who profess tolerance really tolerant? About this article Soumaya Ghannoushi: Return of the Muslim other This article appeared on p30 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Tuesday 23 October 2007 . It was published on guardian.co.uk at 19.08 EDT on Tuesday 23 October 2007 . It was last modified at 19.08 EST on Friday 11 January 2008 . It was first published at 05.56 EDT on Wednesday 24 October 2007 . Comments Muslims have been rioting in the 'no-go' zones in Amsterdam every night for the past 10 days, seemingly outraged that an infidel policewoman had the audacity to shoot her Muslim attacker as he was stabbing her. In response, Muslim youths have been burning cars and looting the neighborhoods every