When the Muslims protest, you are indignant; when they approve, you are suspicious; when they keep quiet you are fearful. Messieurs, these men have no political nation. They do not even demand their religious nation. All they ask is to be admitted into yours. If you refuse this, beware lest they do not soon create one for themselves.

QUESTION: This is a striking warning about how exclusion breeds nation-building. Worth investigating the historical context of where this was said and what happened next.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 103