“al-Qaeda are the anarchists of the 21st century”

[David Morris]

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/terrorists-and-anarchists.php

"I really mean that analogy to be read in two directions. On the one
hand, I think people drastically overestimate the extent of terrorism
risks and the extent to which Muslim immigration to Europe is some
unsolvable nightmare. But at the same time, I think part of what gets
people confused here is a tendency to underestimate how severe the
problems of the past seemed. Catholic (and Jewish) immigration to the
United States really was, at the time, seen as a major dilemma
involving the integration of ideological, religiously, and racially
alien people. And people living before World War One really were
living in an era marked by a frightening upsurge in anarchist
violence, particularly a volume of major assassinations that would be
unthinkable today."