Racism on the Rise in Europe?

According to this report published by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), "extremism and racism" are on the rise throughout Europe and racist political discourse is increasingly common in mainstream European politics. The report makes a number of vague, unsubstantiated assertions about "racism" in Europe, without any real, solid facts.

The agenda of the findings becomes clear way down the page. The president of ENAR is named Mohammed Aziz. And one of his spokesmen, speaking of the report, says that anti-terror policies in Europe tend to "stigmatise Muslim communities and equate Islam with terrorism." ENAR also hopes to see an end to racial profiling activities which are carried out "without justification," the spokesperson added.

So this is really just a piece of Muslim propaganda aimed at portraying European Muslims as victims who must be mollycoddled and accomodated at every turn, or else we will be accused of "racism" (what race is Islam, again?). The ENAR spokesmen does not specify what is a legitimate justification for security profiling, so obviously this is just aimed at making sure security officials and the general public feel hesitant in reporting suspicious activity by Muslims or subjecting them to extra security checks, the same way CAIR did in the "Flying Imams" case. The end result of this, of course, is that Islamic jihadists get away with their acts of murder without anyone being able or allowed to stop them. Just as Mohammad Aziz and Co want.

See Robert Spencer's new book, Steath Jihad, for much more on this and other related topics.