Chossudovsky: Demonizing Muslims. America's Witch Hunt!

Heading into a "World War III Scenario"? THe US has launched a witch hunt "reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition" to "demonize" Muslims. "While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the US inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims," writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Center for Research on Globalization, Montreal. "Ethnic profiling applies to travel, the job market, access to education and societal services and more generally to social status and mobility," he writes in his new book,"Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War". "What is now unfolding is a generalized process of demonisation of an entire population group. Muslims are considered a potential threat to national security. The threat is said to be 'much closer to home', 'within your neighborhood'. In other words, what is unfolding is an all out witch hunt reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition," Chossudovsky writes. "The arrests, trials and sentences of so-called 'homegrown terrorists' from within Americas Muslim community on trumped up charges sustain the legitimacy of the Homeland Security State and its inquisitorial legal and law enforcement apparatus," he asserts. Chossudovsky writes: "The objective is to sustain the illusion that America is under attack and that Muslims across the land are complicit and supportive of 'Islamic terrorism'. The demonization of Muslims sustains a global military agenda. Under the American Inquisition, Washington has a self-proclaimed holy mandate to extirpate Islam and spread democracy throughout the world."