Allan... most western countries have the clash of cultures with various
immigrants. This has been the case here in the USA from the beginning.
There will always be a stalemate until one culture gives in to the other,
and assimilation begins.
Thats true. Its happening amongst Muslims in Britain, its already happened for immigrants and second, third generations of a wide range of other minorities, but there is extraordinary resistance to it happening too in some sections of the Muslim communities in some parts of the country. Its fair to say that there is both integration and separatism-ghettoisation happening within the Muslim community.
When a totally austere, frankly medieval minded literalist religious movement called Tableegi Jamaati has its European headquarters in Yorkshire, helping to set the atmospherics and tone of what is acceptable discourse of practise, injecting a really backwards, stone cold pre-modern version of Islam into Muslim society, its no surprise, for instance, that there is a really embedded 'ghetto' mentality in Yorkshire amongst so many Muslims.
British Muslims have not been allowed a free run at integration and settling on their own identity, finding the balance, because they've been living in a space in which literalist Islam has been injected into the atmosphere, by elders, prosletysers, mosques, madrassas, media, and their parents.