A quote from The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2007

Islam is the greatest challenge to old politics since the fall of communism. It has scrambled categories of right and left. The right steals the left's language to allege that Muslims do not fit in because they do not respect Western values of pluralism, women's rights and even gay rights.

Some of this is an expedient platform on which to oppose Muslims, but not all. It is a conservative government in the Netherlands that makes would-be immigrants watch a film on Dutch culture showing a topless woman sunbathing and a male couple kissing.