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 | | On July 28, after the three-month truce with Europe to demand that European troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan was over, a statement posted on an Islamic website from an al-Qaeda-linked group, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, threatened "waterfalls of blood" in European cities because the continent didn't respond to the demands to withdraw troops. |
 | | Also, as a reaction to increasing multiculturalism in Europe in the past couple of years, there has been a tremendous rise of the far-right parties at the national level in Europe, and the recent European parliamentary elections also witnessed increasing support for anti-European Union and other far-right parties in Europe. |
 | | As Europe's governments step up their efforts to root out Islamic extremists, the future holds one of two possibilities: either the continent's 20 million Muslims will integrate smoothly into their countries' economic and political life, or they will remain on the margins, disaffected and potentially dangerous. |
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