A new right-wing take on the multicuturalism debate. Mark Steyn asserts that it is not the co-existence of multiple cultures within a society that is a problem but the supposed fact that in Europe there are only two cultures – Muslim and non-Muslim. With its “ageing native populations, and young Muslim populations”, Europe is heading for inevitable confrontation between these two irreconcilable cultures – “you can’t buck demography – except through civil war”.

Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2005