Several years ago I was being interviewed by a journalist from Switzerland when the topic came to Islam in Europe. The interviewer identified herself as a fastidiously progressive and secular person, and insisted that she held nothing against Islam as a religion. Nonetheless, â??when I see a mosque in Switzerland,â? she confessed, â??I have an overwhelming sense that something is not right about this.â?
Since the horrendous in attacks in Paris, a lot has been written about radical Islam and Europe, much of it perceptive, much of it not. Correctly, attention has focused on European immigration policies, the lingering effects of colonialism, Anti-Semitism, poverty and unemployment in Muslim immigrant communities, the venomous influence of jihadist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, the vulnerabilities created by social media, and so on.
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