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utterly reject the US State Department view of the threat of political Islamism to global security. However, in France and throughout Europe right now, there is a trend that is hard to ignore and that requires a special analysis of the role of Islamism in the regional context. As Juan Cole rightly noted, the likely goal of the Islamists in this case is to stoke Islamophobia in France, and so effectively to get the far right to help radicalize otherwise moderate French Muslims. The far right in turn is happily volunteering for this task. Sometimes the two tendencies come together in a single person: witness Dieudonné, whose child has Jean-Marie Le Pen as a godfather - www.the-utopian.org