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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...massacre. The Guardian frets over Islamophobes seizing this atrocity to advance their hatred. The Financial Times is in a spin about Islamophobic turbans using the massacre to [challenge] the tolerance on which Europe has built its peace. One British hack says we should all fear the coming Islamophobic backlash. And what actually happened in La Belle France as these dead-tree pieces about a possible Islamophobic backlash made their appearance? Jews were assaulted. And killed. Dont attack Moslems, lectures the press as Jews are attacked.
Across Europe, among the right-thinking sections of society, among the political classes, the response to the massacre of the cartoonists and satirists has been the same: to panic about how Them, the native masses, especially the more right-wing sections of the French population, might respond to it. The blood on the floor of the Charlie Hebdo offices was still wet when brow-furrowed observers started saying: Oh no, the Moslems! Will they be attacked? Its the same after every terrorist attack: from 9/11 to 7/7 in London to last years Sydney siege to Gay Paree today: Liberals instant, almost Pavlovian response to Islamist terror attacks in the West is to worry about a violent uprising of the ill-educated against Moslems. The uprising never comes, but that doesnt halt their fantasy fears. Whats it all about?