Citizenship and Integration

Abu Eesa at the World Economic Forum in Egypt, held few days ago, addressing the issues on citizenship and integration in Europe. An excerpt:

For the Muslim European Citizen, it suggests that you are either there, “Islam”, or here, the “West”. That naturally increases the feeling of strangeness or foreignness for a person like me, someone born and bred in England, who has no other culture that I can identify with as perfectly as my “British” one. I was telling Tom, who’s American of course, that it’s a good thing that there aren’t many Germans around otherwise we’d have to fight over the sun-loungers. Instead, I’ve been getting my share of the sun (and hey we need sun as well) completely uncontested.

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