Muslims started coming to Europe in great numbers to fill labour shortages after World War II. Europe thought they would all go home when their labour was no longer needed, but recent European history shows that ``guest workers” don’t go home. They invite their families to join them. Today, Muslims pour into Europe legally and illegally.



Europeans ask each other: What have we done, and what should we do to better absorb our Muslims into our liberal democracies? For Muslims are Europe’s fastest-growing minority, and Islam is Europe’s third-largest religious affiliation after Catholics and Protestants.



Worrying part is that majority of Islamist terrorists were not born in shanties or in Asian countries. They were born and brought up in the liberal atmosphere of France, Britain, Denmark and Germany besides other European countries and the United States of America.



The major problem that both Europe and America face, as far as their Muslim populations are concerned, is not to let vigilance against terrorism spill over into undermining civil rights and discriminating against the 99.9 percent of Muslims who just want to get along.



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