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While few associate Islam with Italy, Sweden, and the Netherlands, these newer demographic representations face the same issues as the overall 23 million Muslims living in Europe. Dramatic cases have propelled European Muslim communities into public view: the religious death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie for his allegedly anti-Islam Satanic Verses , the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia, German attacks on Muslim immigrants, and the "headscarves affair" in France. Contributors under the editorship of Vertovec (U. of Warwick) and Peach (Oxford U.) provide context for Muslim resistance to integration on the one hand, and racism and xenophobia toward this growing minority on the other. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.