failure it is not hard to see why some Europeans are perturbed but let us not blow this out of proportion. You make the point excellently with the view that 'Beyond all the noise about Europe's "Muslim problem" lurks a growing unease about the changing texture of European society. Gone are the days of pure white, Christian Europe. Now Europe is multi-ethnic, multireligious and multicultural, a fact which many find hard to swallow. Muslims are part of this evolving reality, but the idea that the continent is being Islamised is a figment of the right's imagination. Europeans have to also realize that this wave of Anti-Muslim feeling is against the European ethos of tolerance & understanding and as such should do as much to oppose it as the Muslims' As Abdal Hakim Murad remarks poignant as always. 'It is difficult to deny that familiar European views of Muslims are a good deal more threatening than the communities they describe. One is forced to respect the pessimism of many European Muslims, threatened as they are by this new anti-Semitism which the white Christian majorities have, to be frank, failed to notice sufficiently. I could have sworn that I had already read this article. I searched and it is in fact a re-hash of almost every article by the same author published in the Guardian - "Contempt for our culture" / "Religious hatred is no more than a variety of racism" / "Incitement to hatred" /"Return to the dark ages" - the