The above is the background image from a recent entry in the Conservative Party of Canada’s official website.

And here is Margaret Wente, with her usual one-sided presentation, this time on immigration to Sweden. Ignore the main argument here, if you can, one which misses so much and so much, and seems to be a re-hash of a Skype interview. Just note, please, the phrase “white flight.”

Islam is a religion. But “Muslim” is a signifier, and the signified is not your reassuringly white neighbour. Let’s dispense with the disingenuous distinctions of Muslim-baiters and see their xenophobia for what it is—racism in another guise.