Multicultural PoliticsIf, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line, the problem of the twenty first century may be one that reaches back to premodernity: religious identity. Even before 9 11 it was becoming evident that Muslims, not blacks, were perceived as the "other" most threatening to Western society, even in a relatively pluralist nation such as Britain. In Multcultural Politics, one of the most respected