Asad shifts from immigrant attitudes to Europe’s own representational capacity

Evidence

But I begin elsewhere. I focus not on liberal opposition to right-wing intolerance or dismay at the closed-mindedness of immigrants but with a larger question. Can contemporary European practices and discourses represent a culturally diverse society of which Muslim migrants (Pakistanis in Britain, Turks in Germany, North Africans in France) are now part? — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 775