Phobia's base reality ...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/07/playing-right-into-isiss-hands/
An excerpt ...
“The policemen asked for my papers,” al-De’emeh tells me. “I gave them no problem. Then they asked how many languages I spoke. I said Dutch, French, English and Arabic. And one of them said: “Here in Belgium, we don’t like you to speak Arabic”. They were not nice. They asked what was in my car and they checked everything and came across copies of my book, The Jihad Caravan. A policeman said: “Here in Belgium we don’t allow you to have this book in your car – we don’t have ‘jihad’ in Belgium”. They told me to get out of my car, put my hands on the roof. They asked for the password of my phone which I didn’t give them. Then they opened my phone, took my SIM card, wrote down some numbers and gave it back. They went through all my papers and threw them in the car, some of them falling on the road.”
Al-De’emeh was outraged and complained to the police. “I had just been giving a speech about radicalisation to Parliament. I run a centre to help people get rid of this Isis thing. For two years, I’ve been doing this. I try to de-radicalise these people. But Isis want things like this to happen. They want the police to threaten Muslims and if the police behave like this, they are hindering our work and helping Isis.”
The local police tried to explain away this little mishap. “People” had been filming police and army posts from al-De’emeh’s car – presumably the film crew following his work – and al-De’emeh had “incited bystanders against the police”, which is an offence under Belgian law.
Much worse was to come. Al-De’emeh began receiving messages from Isis itself.
“They were laughing at me,” he says. “They wrote that now I would see what happened when people opposed Isis. One wrote: ‘What’s up? Having problems, are you?’ Isis was very pleased this had happened to me. They want things like this to happen to Muslims. They want the police to fight Muslims. They want a war between European Muslims and the people.”
The ironies of all this are all too obvious. The Belgian cops should have been reading al-De’emeh’s book, not condemning him for having copies of it in his car. They should have been learning from him, not abusing him. But once you tell people that they are living in fear; once you have a “state of emergency”, all the normal rules of society are chucked out.