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Joel_Goldenberg
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posted 25 August 2006 09:30 AM      Profile for Joel_Goldenberg        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If this is true, it''s a bad sign for Muslim communities in the West.

Daily Telegraph

From the article:

"A higher proportion than last year now feels that the police and MI5 should focus their counter-terrorism efforts on Muslims and far fewer people are worried that such an approach risks dividing the country or offending law-abiding Muslims.
Most strikingly, there has been a substantial increase over the past five years in the numbers who appear to subscribe to a belief in a clash of civilisations. When YouGov asked in 2001 whether people felt threatened by Islam, as distinct from fundamentalist Islamists, only 32 per cent said they did. That figure has risen to 53 per cent."

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posted 25 August 2006 10:07 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The manufacture of consent in real time with real consequences.

It amazes that we wonder how did ordinary Germans accept what the state was doing to Jews, homosexuals, communists, and other undesirables back in the 1930s and, meanwhile, today, we are all good Germans when it comes to muslims as we accept the propaganda, the official racism, the curtailment of civil rights and the jackboots in the night. Today they are coming for the muslims ...


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