Re: Gus, all I know is that the French are scared to death of the Arabs.
Well, I wouldn't put it that way... let's say that the French are concerned about the vulnerability of their social fabric. True, there's a sizable Muslim/Arab population in France but then it's still a MINORITY (5 mil vs 50 mil of non-Muslims).
Somehow, I could sling it back to you and say that the US government is scared to death of a racial clash, let's call it the "LA'92 syndrome".... Hence the US's cautious strategy of branding the terrorist menace as a fringe anomaly within Islam. The pitfall the US admnistration tries to avoid is the one that would brand all Muslim Americans and most African-Americans as potential terrorists, as an anti-American fifth column to be policed and "neutralized". If such a scenario ever materialized, it'd mean the end of the USA as a world leader. Of course, such an endgame is eagerly pursued by the Judeofascist clique: white supremacists, Christian Zionists and fascistic elements within the US military don't give a damn about the benevolent image the US still enjoys abroad.... Theirs is an America that would emulate Israel and pull the plug on its legacy of liberal values and multiculturalism. American Judeofascists figure that the US could easily engage in the same racist, colonialist policy as Israel and turn most non-white, non-Christian minorities into one big "Palestinian problem" to be "drained"...
Presently, the political situation is as volatile in the US as it is in Europe. American Judeofascists have an edge over their liberal counterparts: so far, every terrorist attack, every fit of subversion has been pinned either on black people or Muslim individuals and preferably on minorities who are both non-white and Muslim. The Judeofascist ploy is indeed water-tight: not the faintest hint has been aired about a possible Christian(-Zionist) or Jewish terror connection. The only leak about a possible Israeli terrorist ramification dates back to September 2001 when FOX/Cameron relayed the story about a dozen of Israeli illegals taking pictures of the collapsing WTC from NJ...
Needless to say it's gonna be an ever finer line to tread for the US authorities: sooner or later, Muslim minorities, already victimized in the workplace, discriminated against in the military and law enforcement agencies, and vilified by the media and the televangelists, will just blow up --racial riots may be just around the corner.
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