No reasonable person would claim that the integration of Muslims into western societies is without problems. As the team of social scientists behind Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies reports, 43 per cent of people interviewed in a poll for the newspaper Le Figaro in 2012 considered that the country’s Muslim community constituted a “menace to the identity of France”, while in a German survey conducted in 2013 51 per cent thought Islam posed a threat to their way of life. That year, of a thousand 18- to 24-year-olds in Britain interviewed by Radio 1, 27 per cent said they did not trust Muslims (compared with 16 per cent concerning Hindus or Sikhs, 15 per cent for Jews, 13 per cent for Buddhists and 12 per cent for Christians).
合理的人不會斷言穆斯林在融入西方社會方面沒有問題。撰寫《爲什麼傳統基督教社會的穆斯林融合會失敗》(Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies)一書的社會學家團隊寫道：在法國《費加羅報》(Le Figaro) 2012年所做的一項調查中，43%的受訪者認爲該國的穆斯林羣體構成「對法國國家認同的威脅」，而2013年德國的一項調查顯示，51%的受訪者認爲伊斯蘭教對他們的生活方式構成威脅。同年，在BBC廣播一臺(BBC Radio 1)對1000名英國18至24歲的青年進行的調查中，27%的受訪者稱自己不信任穆斯林（相比之下，不信任印度教徒或錫克教徒的比例爲16%，不信任猶太人的比例爲15％，不信任佛教徒的比例爲13%，不信任基督徒的比例爲12%）。