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Two of the leaders of European Muslim opinion clashed dramatically yesterday on the position and future of the Muslim communities in European states.
Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born intellectual and grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somalian-born Dutch MP who was stripped of her Dutch citizenship over allegations of a falsified application for citizenship, displayed in personal form the bitterness of a debate which both agreed convulses their co-religionists.
Ms Hirsi Ali, who has taken an atheist position and lives under secret service protection becauseof threats to her life, toldthe annual conference organised by the Ax:son Johnson Foundation that leadersof Muslim opinion "mustdiscriminate between Islam as it is and Islam as itcould be" - and said thatMr Ramadan, whom she described as a "handsome and articulate leader ofopinion", had failed to do so.