These figures provide some useful insights into the evolving social fabric of Arab societies.

In almost every field of life, Muslims have been an integral part of the European tapestry.

The same Fund also financed a project to assess the rehabilitation prospects of a textile factory in Gulbahar, Afghanistan.

Her father, Vladimir Aksyenovich Tereshkov was a tractor driver, and her mother, Elena Fedorovna, worked in a textile plant.

At 17 she had to leave school to work at a textile mill in order to help support her family however, she continued her education through a correspondence course.

Discipline and morality may well be key to reinforcing trust and credibility to Europe s social fabric a point that northern Europeans never tire of making.

These figures provide some useful insights into the evolving social fabric of Arab societies. Normally, people are open to influence from those whom they trust and wish to emulate.

Instead of sticking to doomsday prophecies or to categorical perspectives that prevent an understanding of the complex fabric of Islamic movements, the West needs to keep the pressure on the incumbent regimes to stop circumventing political reform.