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Integrating Europe's Muslim Minorities: Public Anxieties, Policy
Responses  Muslim women converse at Trafalgar Square in London.
The United Kingdom is one of several European countries that
have seen an increasing Muslim minority population over the past
few decades. (Photo courtesy of Garry Knight)  Muslim
integration is one of the most contentious issues in the
immigration debate in Europe, and one that gets right to the
heart of public anxieties about immigration. European countries
are grappling with ways to accommodate Muslim minorities while
upholding national values. Getting the balance right has not
been easy. Some policies have drawn public support in some
quarters but been criticized elsewhere as an attack on Islam,
such as France's ban on the burqa and other face-covering
headwear, and Switzerland's referendum banning the co