adoption). No, writing from Birmingham, with its large muslim population, I'm with the Swiss 29% on this one. 'Return of the Muslim Other'? I would suggest that Muslims never stopped being 'the Other.' The rise of the Right in Europe is certainly ominous. I have stated the reasons why in previous posts but will briefly reiterate them. First as Muslims living in Europe we have done a poor job in representing Islam. We have failed to live up to the Prophetic way. Many Muslims do not wish to integrate(there are socio-political reasons for this & I am not trying to simplify the issue), many are covetous of Islam & seem to have this 'chosen people' mentality; saying 'La illah ha illah' does not make you better than anyone as even the Hypocrite(Munafiq) says that & he is lower than the Kafir(I use the word Kafir within the paradigm set out by Imam Ghazali which is a person who knows the truth & rejects it-this means that not all non Muslims today can be termed with this word as so many Muslims like to, for example people who misunderstand Islam to be a religion of terror are not rejecting Islam but infect rejecting a false perception of Islam & so are not kafir as the term suggests .Also people who have never heard of Islam can no be termed this way as they do not know-I have met numerous people in Shanghai who have never heard of Islam, they can not