Europe: Rising Racism on the Continent

Immigrants face economic hardship and increasing prejudice

Yesterday the Jews, tomorrow the Turks. —Graffito in West Berlin

"We don't want to resort to extremism, but if we are pushed against the wall, we will defend ourselves." —A young Moroccan in Paris

Urgent action is needed if [racial disadvantage] is not to become an endemic, ineradicable disease threatening the very survival of our society. —Lord Scarman's report on the 1981 riots in Brixton, England

They came by the millions when times were good, from backward villages in Anatolia and the Punjab, from the Caribbean...

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