Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation
by Robert S. Leiken
Oxford University Press, 354 pp., $27.95
Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities
by the Open Society Institute
346 pp., available at opensocietyfoundations.org
The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration
by Jonathan Laurence
Princeton University Press, 366 pp., $80.00; $29.95 (paper)
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 285 pp., $26.95
Immigrant Nations
by Paul Scheffer, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters
Polity, 390 pp., $84.95; $29.95 (paper)
If you want to elaborate a version of multiculturalism that is genuinely compatible with liberalism, you have to spend pages hedging the term about with clarifications and qualifications. By the time you have finished doing that, the justification for a separate new “ism” has evaporated. Why not simply talk about the form of modern liberalism suited—meaning also, developed and adapted—to the conditions of a contemporary, multicultural society?
