This is redounding to the benefit of 'W' and the current US Administration whether we like it or not. Directing street violence at Northern Europeans based on mild satire is Orwellian in its implications of mass thought control. I'm bemused by the American government's rather passive stance as opposed to the Europeans. I can't decide if it's a case of tit for tat because of lack of mainland Europe's support on Iraq, or a positively Machiavellian view that it's worth having Europeans take some Islamic heat for the time being.