Old Europe versus New Europe and the Muslims.

Stephen Schwartz writes that

Visiting Old Europe, i.e. Western Europe today, it is difficult to deny that the long-dreaded "clash of civilizations" between Muslims and non-Muslims -- at least on the battlefield of mass psychology -- has begun.

...the mainstream media appear intent on conspiring with radical Islamists to portray the whole of the ummah or global Islamic community -- more than a billion people -- as empty-headed fools.

He doubts that the

necessary voices of calm and restraint will proliferate on either side in Old Europe. ...all hopes for conciliation between European Muslims and non-Muslims must come from New Europe [because] Western Europeans are spiritually exhausted...The peoples of New Europe -- Poles, Hungarians, Slovenes, Romanians, and even some other citizens of former Yugoslavia --survived Communism thanks to their spiritual commitments, often to traditional Catholicism. They are stronger in their Christian belief and are in a better position to view Islam without fear.

Read his article called New Visions for European Islam.