When the puppet master becomes the puppett it is easy to loose sight of reality. If only the American people were able to see through thier Governments (and other groups) attempts to inflame public oppinion against Muslims then we may see some sort of stability in the Middle East, and an easing of the dangerous and growing swing to far right politics in Europe. At the moment Muslims are being blamed for all that is wrong is the world - a short sighted tactic to allow the continued pusuit of a few nations interests in a certain part of the world. But don't they see the long term picture? The tinder is being prepared for a fire storm. If the far right get hold of real power in Europe and the US it won't stop with Muslims - within a generation it will have moved on to all Asians, then perhaps 'back' to people of African decent, and perhaps within another generation - heaven forbid - we may even see a swing back to the sort of ultra-right, all-white, all 'Christian' government we saw in Germany in the 30's - and we all know what happened as a result. Short term gain (oil / land / wealth / influence / etc) at the expence of the long term is not a good idea - please wake up and see what is going on.

Jim, the scenario you invasion is already taking shape in the United States. There are over 2 million young black men in the United States prison system. Despite Obama, black Americans are today worse off than when Martin Luther King made his famous speech "I have a dream". F the majority of African American, that dream has turned nightmare . The 2005 events in New Orleans have demonstrated to the world the true status of subjugation of the majority of African Americans in the United States. Today the majority of those who lost their jobs and homes during this economic crisis are black and members of other minority groups. The wall between Mexico and the United States is a physical reminders of both current crisis and the dark times of racial strife that is to come. Thus, war against immigrants is another aspect of a wider crisis in the social and political order in the United States. Muslims in the United States are not in fact the worse off. economically speaking. Majority are in the middle class category and can easily relocate to other parts of the world. The same cannot be said of blacks and poor immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries. However, I do agree with you at the moment, Muslim hate propaganda has strong resonance in the United States because of U.S strong support of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the U.S occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. it seems that there is a tacit knowledge in the population that these wars of aggression might bring blow back from Muslims. Obama was elected to change this situation but he brought not peace but an escalation of hostility between the Muslim world and the United States.