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at mosques and workplaces, the throwing of Molotov cocktails, the

beating of employers and workers, swastikas and insulting slogans
being written on walls, the vandalism of cemeteries, attacks on homes
and families being beaten and threatened with verbal harassment, are
some of the things that Muslims in Europe are frequently subjected to.

However, like all other migrants, Muslims are people who leave
their own homes and seek to integrate into the countries they go to,
making great economic contributions to their new societies. Discrimi-
nation and hostility toward them is wholly incompatible with human
rights and modern democracy, as well as being unjust and intolerant.

However, it would be equally wrong to consider hostility toward
Islam and Muslims in Europe as a single category. People who think
that Muslims are taking jobs and other benefits away from Westerners,

those who deliberately play on these concerns to encourage hostility
toward Islam and Muslims, or those who think that increasing num-
bers of Muslims will eliminate Christianity and/or degenerate West-
ern culture and those who equate Islam with terror and radicalism
must all be considered separately. There is only one way of overcoming
all these fears; true Muslims must describe their faith with patience
and moderation and explain and show that an Islam purged of all non-