Habermas on religion and secularism

It's hard to be sure about the precise content of an article by Jürgen Habermas from reading a short second-hand report about it. But assuming the basic accuracy of this one, he seems here to support a sensible balance so far as the place of religious belief in public life is concerned. I disagree with his reported comment about Sharia Law (see this post), but for the rest he makes some necessary points:

He [Habermas] rejected the argument of secularists who seek to exclude religious discourse from civic discourse, saying that religious faith must inform public life. But he also chided multiculturalists who would permit exclusion and discrimination in the name of religious dogma.
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The task facing society was to find the proper balance between the claims of religion and culture against the democratic imperative, becoming aware "of the fact that the other is a member of an inclusive community of citizens of equal rights, in which equal citizenship and cultural difference complement each other."

Muslims in Europe "must not only superficially adjust to a constitutional order. They are expected to appropriate the secular legitimation of constitutional principles under the very premises of their own faith," Habermas said.

However, secularists must also enter a complementary learning process, for if they continued to reject the people with a religious mindset, they were abandoning the mutual recognition that shared citizenship entails.

Secular citizens must remain open to the possibility that even religious utterances, when translated into a secular context, can have meaning for them. "As not everything can be achieved by political decision and legal enforcement," Habermas concluded.