" Recent immigration from Africa and Eastern Europe—and Muslim countries farther east—created a new social tension in the city that still lacked the political maturity to address it. The liberals expounded limitless tolerance, the conservatives were racist or xenophobic, and everyone debated from philosophical positions but never from ones grounded in evidence, and so no sober consideration was being given to the very real question now haunting all of Western civilization—namely, How tolerant should we be of intolerance? "

― Derek B. Miller , Norwegian by Night (Sigrid Ødegård #1)