Europe's Angry Young Muslims

From the BBC World Service:

The London bombings, the Paris riots and, more recently, the cartoon controversy - Europe's Muslims are scarcely ever out of the news.

In this three-part series, Roger Hardy goes in search of the roots of Muslim alienation, asks if Muslim anger is justified or unjustified - and tries to gauge where Europe and its Muslims are heading. ( Listen to : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Listen to Part One ( Click Here)

Commentators are asking if Islam is compatible with Western values - and if a new generation of angry young European Muslims will become increasingly radicalised.

The first part begins in Leeds - home to three of the London bombers - and then moves to the Paris suburbs.

Young Muslims in both places share similar grievances, but these play out in very different contexts.

French "mono-culturalism" stands in marked contrast to British multi-culturalism - but have both failed?

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The second in the series focuses on young Muslims in the Netherlands, more than a year after the killing of controversial film-maker Theo Van Gogh by a young Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin.

How have Islamic and secular lifestyles among the young developed and how do they compare?

And hear from the prominent right-wing politician who's taken up the mantle of the late Pim Fortuyn.

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The scene shifts to Milan, which has acquired a reputation as a "hub" of Islamic radicalism.

Muslims have arrived in Italy more recently than in northern Europe, and few have acquired Italian citizenship.

The programme looks at the social problems confronting a new and insecure immigrant community - and asks whether the failure of efforts at integration will increase the danger of radicalisation.