Eye on Eurasia: Why Muslims go to Europe / United Press International, 20 Nov 2005

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051120-091151-9629r
"Provides an intriguing glimpse into the ways many Muslims in the Russian Federation view both Muslim countries and Muslim minorities abroad -- attitudes that may gain in significance if the violence in France continues. Yezhova, who writes frequently and sympathetically on a wide variety of Islamic issues, begins by observing something that many in the West increasingly point to but that few in Russia regularly note: Muslims are often freer to practice their faith in the secular West than in their Muslim homelands. "