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...appeasement" toward "intolerant" Islam, says Bawer, Europe faces "a long twilight of Balkanization with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims and non-Muslims." A new best-selling volume from Denmark titled Islamists and the Naive strikes a similar chord. Its co-author, Karen Jespersen, is a former Interior Minister with Denmark's Social Democrats, a party often associated with policies friendly to Muslim immigrants. The threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism in the 21st century is comparable, Jespersen writes, to the twin scourges of the past century, Nazism and communism - other forms of "totalitarianism." Left-wing intellectuals across Europe...
...applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less acculturated clerics from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need the cooperation of the Muslim organizations," Wolfgang Schäuble said in Berlin, "to fight against extremists from their own ranks...
...perfect avatar of the new Gürtel. This stylish, two-level fusion restaurant and bar lies just off Nussdorferstrasse, one of the most conspicuous pockets of gentrification along the belt. There, the city's chattering classes nibble on sushi in a chic interior fashioned from concrete and laminated beechwood. Afterward, they have a healthy choice of postprandial entertainment on the doorstep, much of it with an ethnic feel. At the Indian-inspired KAIKO CLUB, tel: (43-1) 479 88 49, revelers dance to house music beside Buddhist statuary and beneath a massive golden chandelier; over...
...society, and he snorts: "This is not nation building; it's more like putting out fires." Perhaps the next generation will work out such tricky issues. Galja Burnakova, 29, taps the side of her head with her index finger. "The biggest problem is here," she says. She's an interior decorator who was born in the Siberian town of Abakan but has lived in Tallinn for a decade and speaks near-flawless Estonian. Like many Russian-born residents, she says she'd much rather live in Estonia than back in Russia. She's nibbling shrimp sandwiches in a hip private...
...three years," says Alteresco. Annual rise across the board, he estimates, has ranged from 80-100% over the past few years. That's been a trend everywhere Europeans have started to call home. During her 11 years as a resident of Marrakech - where she's worked as an interior designer, hotel operator and property developer - former Paris-based lawyer Meryanne Loum-Martin has seen the local real estate market rapidly go from bubbling to booming. In particularly hot neighborhoods, she says, traditional riad villas that sold for j90,000 per hectare six years ago are now priced...