ABSTRACT
Nowadays, multiculturalism struggles between impossibility and a celebrated reality. For politicians it has become the scapegoat for an array of social and political evils. The failure of the peace process in the Middle East, problematic social integration of the migrants and rising world tension over terrorism are widely believed to be the consequences of multicultural policies. Meanwhile, the world is anything but homogeneous. Multiculturalism is an official policy in a lot of countries where cultural diversity and pluralism is under government guarantee and protection. Two representative examples are the multicultural practices of India and the European Union. They are two different models of integration within the framework of multiculturalism but share two important characteristics: a secular, liberal–democratic polity and Muslims as a dominant religious minority.
