Ever since Sept. 11, europeans have been encouraged to believe that the big new problem for their continent is discrimination. Particularly Islamophobia. In other words, prejudice against the European Union's estimated 15 million Muslims. Europe's antibias bureaucracies, the main brooders on this new menace, are a wonder to behold. There is a European Monitering Centre on Racism and Intolerance. And, of course, there are antibias agencies in each of the EU's 15 member countries. On top of everything …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…cheat.) The Netherlands also has an Equal Treatment Commission that moniters a 1994 law barring employment discrimination based on race, sex, marital status and, would you believe, a worker's political ideas. The European Union is in the process of adding ten more countries, mostly from eastern Europe, and these entrants will have to meet EU discrimination standards before they are allowed in. All very positive for one segment of the population--bureaucrats looking for things to do.