GLW: Terror raids fuel Islamophobia

Pip Hinman writes that Terror raids fuel Islamophobia .

This state harassment campaign will not deter those already worked up and thinking about reacting to police harassment: if anything, it will fuel it. The police know that.

Why, then, do they do it? Clearly, the police, with their media accomplices, want to scare young Muslims. But they are wrong if they think this will deter young people from “radicalising”. This “permanent war” on the streets of Sydney — or at least on some streets — finds its echo in Australia’s support for the permanent wars in the Middle East.

The harassment of young people — either of the Muslim faith or from a Middle Eastern background — serves the interests of the ruling class in deflecting attention away from their rotten policies that result in an array of problems young people have to deal with today: increasing isolation, alienation, mental health problems, entry into higher education and trying to find a job.

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Islamphobia distorts the public discourse. The role the US occupation of Iraq played in the rise of Daesh is not discussed. Also, ignorance is professed about the role of CIA in the creation of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. And the list goes on.

If the people are not frightened, they might start to question the Capitalist system, and that is expressly forbidden.