Europe and Its Muslim Minorities: Aspects of Conflict, Attempts at Accord

Complaining revealingly that Europe "assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims" and thereby "exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews…for the suicide bomber" and "the pride of life for the fanatic obsession of death," Nachmani (political science, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) explores the relationship between Europe and its Muslim immigrants. He presents demographic data; describes the routes of Muslim migrants to Europe; addresses question of religious and ethnic identity; discusses European immigration polices; and offers his thoughts on Muslim "self-separation and ghettoization," the status of Muslim women, and Islamic militancy. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Amikam Nachmani completed his doctoral studies at Oxford. He teaches at the Department for Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and specializes in East Mediterranean studies, notably Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. His interests extend from civil war, gender and nationalism, to ethnicity, and natural resources.