THE MUSLIM QUESTION IN DIFFERENT VIEWS
THE MUSLIM QUESTION IN DIFFERENT VIEWS

Summary/Abstract: There is nothing strange if it is precisely in Sarajevo that such a speech can be pronounced, at the same time completely inside Europe and at the margin of this Europe whose destiny doesn’t cease to play its part. In this paper, I would like most of all to express my fears about what we all feel that is going on beneath the reinsuring appearance of democracy that Europeans think they can’t loose at any time. To avoid any confusion that could occur about what I am going to say, I must emphasize on the fact that I don’t intend to defend anyone, and certainly not Islam or the Muslims who don’t need to be defended anyway. I don’t wish either to blame anyone, since my purpose has nothing to do with blame or defence and stands outside any moral statement. However a certain amount of warnings ought to be raised and formulated facing the European peaceful and unconscious mood that is prevailing nowadays and which deserves to be called the good conscience of Europe. This conscience seems to me to be completely unaware of what is threatening its inner democratic self-understanding which thinks that democracy is realised ones for all, and that it couldn’t be annihilated. Since Europe thinks of itself as the democratic pattern, it sees itself as a reality of whose nature is democracy. However, Europe, and France particularly in some way, is facing a dangerous crisis whose roots are deep established inside what could be at last designed as the European identity.[...]

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