For many in Cameron’s audience, the real problem is not “political Islam” so much as it is a deep sense of economic insecurity and unemployment—and the desire for a scapegoat. This tension is rising across Europe—peaking in the example of Greece, where politicians embroiled in economic crisis want to erect a European Union border fence that would make the U.S. Border Patrol blush.
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Europe’s Fear of a Muslim Planet: “The denouncement of multiculturalism is a backhanded cheer for monoculturalism, and a clever pivot to the far right under the credo of national security. Just as the bromide of post-racial America has been used to conceal inequity, European leaders have waved the post-multicultural wand in hopes of demarcating cultures according to nationalist ideology.”
Color Lines.com: Amid Right-Wing Resurgence Western Europe Buries “Multiculturalism”
(Source: bLaKtivist.com)
