In a column titled "The Muslims Are Coming!" in the Saudi Arab News daily, Aijaz Zaka Syed, a Dubai-based journalist and commentator, wrote that "no matter what Europeans think of Muslims and other recent arrivals, the continent badly needs new blood and ideas."
.... "During a visit to the European Union headquarters a couple of years back, one was pleasantly surprised to see all those restaurants offering 'halal' food, and elderly Arab and Turkish gentlemen enjoying their cuppa of heady Turkish coffee and even an occasional shisha by the roadside cafe.
"This is the heart of Europe, the seat of the European Parliament, and perhaps the capital of the coming United States of Europe. With Arabs and Muslims living and working in this quintessentially European city, Brussels increasingly looks like Beirut, Istanbul, or any other great city of the Middle East. [MEMRI] Read more [via The Iconoclast]
