“Now, you have a situation where people who were not inclined to look suspiciously at Arabs and Muslims, now they’re terrified.” And if they’re terrified, it’s their fault.
“Well, it certainly is going to make it more and more difficult for Muslims and Arabs to integrate into European society. The level of suspicion is very high, and that translates into xenophobic politics. The kind of thing we see with Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, or Marine Le Pen in France, or the really, really fascist Nazi parties in Germany – not in Germany, but in Greece. So I think all of that translates into a situation of more and more of a cultural divide. Harder and harder to integrate people. And then that, of course, will be used for more recruiting by the jihadists.” Dickey has no doubt never considered the fact that Muslim groups in Europe have actively resisted integration, as they consider themselves to be “the best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) and have only contempt for unbelievers as “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). This is why Sharia enclaves have formed all over Europe. Then addled Leftists like Dickey blame the European authorities for the way Muslim communities in their countries have freely chosen to live.
“Daily Beast Editor Decries ‘Rampant Islamophobia’ and ‘Xenophobic Politics’ in Europe,” by Kyle Drennen, NewsBusters, March 22, 2016:
Appearing on a special extended edition of NBC’s Today on Tuesday, Daily Beast world news editor Christopher Dickey fretted that “rampant Islamophobia” in Europe would intensify following the terrorist attacks in Belgium.
Talking to co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer early in the 11 a.m. ET hour, Dickey warned: “It’s a huge political issue because there already was rampant Islamophobia in this part of the world. And now, you have a situation where people who were not inclined to look suspiciously at Arabs and Muslims, now they’re terrified.”
He claimed such a reaction would play right into terrorist hands:
This, by the way, all fits into a plan laid out more than ten years ago by an ideologue named Abu Musab al-Suri, who, in fact, laid it all out. He said, “We need to take the war to Europe. It’s the soft underbelly of the west. We do that, and we will create divisions and dissent and Islamophobia, and eventually we’ll create a civil war.” Well, these are, in the views of ISIS, the first steps on that path.
Bringing Dickey back on the show later that hour, Lauer teed him up: “I spoke about the extraordinary changes taking place in Europe, the face of Europe changing, how does an attack like this impact those changes or accelerate those changes?”
Dickey proclaimed:
Well, it certainly is going to make it more and more difficult for Muslims and Arabs to integrate into European society. The level of suspicion is very high, and that translates into xenophobic politics. The kind of thing we see with Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, or Marine Le Pen in France, or the really, really fascist Nazi parties in Germany – not in Germany, but in Greece. So I think all of that translates into a situation of more and more of a cultural divide. Harder and harder to integrate people. And then that, of course, will be used for more recruiting by the jihadists.
Earlier on the morning show, correspondents Andrea Mitchell and Richard Engel worried that the attacks would enable the “rise of the right wing” across Europe and encourage efforts to “vilify all of the Muslim community.”…