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).
合理的人不会断言穆斯林在融入西方社会方面没有问题。撰写《为什么传统基督教社会的穆斯林融合会失败》(Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies)一书的社会学家团队写道：在法国《费加罗报》(Le Figaro) 2012年所做的一项调查中，43%的受访者认为该国的穆斯林群体构成“对法国国家认同的威胁”，而2013年德国的一项调查显示，51%的受访者认为伊斯兰教对他们的生活方式构成威胁。同年，在BBC广播一台(BBC Radio 1)对1000名英国18至24岁的青年进行的调查中，27%的受访者称自己不信任穆斯林（相比之下，不信任印度教徒或锡克教徒的比例为16%，不信任犹太人的比例为15％，不信任佛教徒的比例为13%，不信任基督徒的比例为12%）。