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11 Jan, 2015

Racism in Europe: Who is to blame? | Arab News

By Harun Yahya

People well-versed with history know well that racism is a blot on the history of Europe. Like many other negatives of now democratized and liberalized regions, racism had so far been confined to history books until recently. The resurgence of racist tendencies accompanied with acts of violence — which the United States and Europe had started to think as a thing of the past — indicates that the disease had never been completely cured.

The US has its own homegrown version of this problem while Europe has raised the issue of racism with a tinge of hostility toward Islam. Anti-Islam protests and attacks on mosques in various parts of Europe and intensification of discriminatory policies against Muslim Turks, particularly in Germany, have reached unprecedented levels in recent days.

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