“Terrorist!” “Bin Laden!” “Go back to your country!” came the shouts from the other car.

[kpete]

There will be tensions in Europe among locals, to be sure, as refugees attempt to assimilate. If they were to come here in this atmosphere, you can bet those tensions would be immediately palpable. Maybe in Chicago:

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

“Terrorist!” “Bin Laden!” “Go back to your country!” came the shouts from the other car.

Inderjit Singh Mukker, a father of two on his way to the grocery store in his Chicago suburb, pulled over when the vehicle in front kept tailgating him, according to the Sikh Coalition. The 53-year-old Sikh man, who wears a beard and turban, expected that the person in the other car would just drive past.

Mukker wound up in the hospital after a severe beating. For all we know, his assailant was home earlier on Tuesday cheering as Kim Davis left her Kentucky jail cell to the applause of supporters of "religious freedom."

Mukker is lucky, I guess. He could have been killed like Balbir Singh Sodhi in the aftermath of 9/11. He was the first of many Sikhs killed in the wake of the 2001 attacks. Americans mistook them for Muslims in a country that went on to precipitate the 2015 refugee crisis because we mistook Iraq for a country that had something to do with 9/11.

The Syrian refugees might actually be better off elsewhere. Perhaps that was the nativists' plan all along.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/all-things-post-september-11-are-new.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/10/terrorist-go-back-to-your-country-attacker-yelled-in-alleged-assault-of-sikh-man/