How to analyze the challenges and difficulties related to the "new visibility of Western citizens of the Muslim faith"? How to apprehend, when they are not outdated, the delicate notions of roots, identity, integration, immigration and security? How can we consider the Muslim fact calmly without agitating these tools of "emotional politics" that are today the headscarf, the niqab or the burqa?

These are some of the questions to which Tariq Ramadan, with a commitment of more than twenty years against the "clash of perceptions", brings here frank, accessible and dispassionate answers. Going beyond prejudice and incomprehension, it calls on Western Muslims in particular to reject minority reflexes and the temptation to victimize, in order to be committed citizens who know their responsibilities and their rights.

It is up to non-Muslims to recognize them as neighbors and citizens in their own right, in order to develop a common vision of the future and promote the advent of true pluralism. Escaping the mental, social, cultural and religious "ghettos" to enter a new era of Western Islam: such is Tariq Ramadan's "intimate conviction", and the opportunity he invites everyone to seize, regardless of culture or faith.