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Article: Dim drums throbbing in the hills half heard - Muslims in Western Europe.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2002
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Enfants de la patrie?
Is there something about Islam that makes it impossible for Muslims to fit into western, liberal societies?
AT THE end of the street stands the church, its steeple rising high above the roofs of the neighbouring terraces. The roads on either side are named after English county towns--Cambridge, Stafford, Warwick and so on--and in the pub on the corner of Warwick Street the pints are being pulled. Oh, to be in England. But this is not quite the England of Robert Browning; this is Oldham, a decaying cotton town just outside Manchester, where litter blows in the street, buddleia sprouts from the brickwork of the factories that made ...