The movement to ban the shariah, the castigation of a progressive income tax as “Marxist,” the condemnation of multiculturalism as a threat to Western values, are all themes commonly heard in the US Tea Party and in the right wing of the Israel lobbies. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Unfortunately, some unscrupulous billionaires, Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers prominent among them, have honed their propaganda skills in the media and public life. ... More »
The story seems based in factual material, but also has a lot of opinion-based-on-fact. And the historical examples of Muslims in Europe are really outdated - the Ottomans were pretty defunct befiore WW I. Part of the problem is that most European national states feel themselves to at least be Christian based (note the number of "Christian Democratic" parties), and of one only major ethnicity. Muslim immigration disturbs this image, especially when first generation immigrants tend to be old country traditionalists (as all immuigrant groups tend to be). And job and education discrimination against these populations is rampant. Well,that paragraph is really a comment - sorry.
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