Uneasy with immigrants, elbowed aside by America, Europe looks inward

A year ago, Europe watched America’s calamity, stunned and sickened but still an ocean away. Now, dusted with September 11 fallout, Europeans grapple with a new kind of world.

Fearful of foreigners in their midst, voters have shifted to the right. Muslims with roots generations deep in European societies find themselves excluded in a mood of us-against-them.