The Muslim Question in Europe

An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In  The Muslim Question in Europe,  Peter O’Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigration—which continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and terrorism—are a clash between “Islam and the West.” Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unre