This collection of six essays could not have arrived at a more important time. . . . With the Coalition  –  and Labour, for that matter – seemingly incapable of learning history’s lessons, and immigration placed centre-stage at the last federal election, and no doubt at the next, this collection of essays edited by one of Australia’s foremost thinkers, Raimond Gaita, has a sense of urgency about it . . .We need more thinkers like these six essayists to contribute to this important topic of national debate.

This is a timely book. Its no-nonsense title, bringing together Muslims and multiculturalism, puts it at the sharp end of the debate over refugees, immigration and the place of migrants in this country.  . . .There is so much overheated rhetoric in this debate that this book, with its considered opinion and learned reflection, is most welcome. Its contributors, all prominent academics and public intellectuals, are ably corralled by editor Raimond Gaita, professor of philosophy at King’s College London and the University of Melbourne.