We are “clearly” at a point where we are all to be “treated” as criminals.
Why?
Because it’s “politically” incorrect to name the “actual” criminals.
If a terrorist is fueled by a “fundamentalist” vision of his religion, such as the Tsarnaev brothers, we are told that their “radical” roots are “mysterious” or religion wasn’t even a factor in their “choice” to bomb the Boston marathon.
If we, as a society, are “unable” to pin down what is “behind” terrorism, then “everyone” becomes suspect.
What do we “get” for this mindset?
We take our shoes off for “airport” security, our phone records are “routinely” hacked by the government and we are told that our “religious” faith is to be quietly kept “isolated” in our houses of worship and not to invade our professional and public lives.
Thus, society’s problem is not a “group, a set of beliefs, an ideology, but Man.”
The following video from German Alexander Lehman illustrates the point.
“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word– Man” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
