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Bernard-Henri Lévy in retracing the footsteps of another Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, made an interesting observation when conversing with muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, a city with a very high muslim population, which he wrote about in the book American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville.  He noted that whilst muslims in Europe, when using the word “we” mean Muslims, but when Muslims in US use that word they mean Americans and that it took him a while to understand that fact, because his initial assumption was that the American Muslims were using the word in a manner consistent with their European brethren.  That is one of the reasons US has been spared the plague of domestic terrorism.  The American Muslims identify themselves as Americans first and Muslims second unlike UK, where multiculturalism has led to a cesspool of festering terrorists.  Is that likely to remain the case in US?

The takeover of the auto industry by the Obama administration and UAW has assured the destruction of the auto industry in US.  Mark Steyn notes:

General Motors has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to over a million people. They can never sell enough cars to make that math add up. In fact, selling cars doesn’t help, as they lose money on each model. GM is a welfare project masquerading as economic activity.

The new boss at GM is unlikely to make any changes that will reverse this, thus assuring their destruction.  Both GM and Chrysler contribute significantly to the economy of the state of Michigan and problems related to the demise of the auto industry will no doubt cause economic hardship.  Are the muslims in Dearborn likely to remain docile in face of this economic calamity?  What will fill this vacum in their life?  Nature abhors vacum and in this case it is likely to be filled by Islam.