I'm greatly confused about how amidst the social (not religious) revolutions in the Arab world, some Western countries are calling for a debate about the place of Islam in their societies. U.S. Republican Congressman from New York, Peter King is hosting a public hearing on radical Islam this week, French President, Nicholas Sarkozy is calling for a "debat sur l'islam en France", and German interior minister is asking if Muslims can be true Germans because "Islam in Germany is not something substantiated by history at any point." This is not only a question of bad timing but also of poor judgment and a delusional obsession with Islam. As I said many times before, radical/violent Islam needs to be addressed and fought, but that fight will be far more successful by good police and intelligence work, away from the limelight of cameras and rowdy demagogues. We know that in France, Sarkozy is concerned about his reelection in 2012 and this debate is a desperate attempt to woe conservative anti-immigration voters who usually vote for the far-right party, Front National (FN). This becomes even clearer this morning as a controversial poll predicted FN's candidate Marine Le Pen would win the first round of the presidential elections in 2012 edging both the socialist candidate and current president Sarkozy. Marine Le Pen has successfully rejuvenated the party after she took over from her father and now seems poised to make Islam and immigration yet again the threat par excellence of anything French. The upcoming elections do not bode well for Muslims in France. In the US, some republicans seem motivated to make Islam a focal point in the 2012 elections. The hearings will drag us again in a tailspin of polarization and paranoia about whether Muslim Americans can be trusted in the same way we questioned their loyalty around the Park 51 controversy last year, which Pamela Geller, the woman behind that saga, is still calling this morning "Ground  Zero Mosquestrosity". I hope the media have learned their lesson since that spectacle last year, but I'm afraid that as Arabs are living through their post-Islamist revolution, some Western leaders still need help dislodging that primal fear of Islam off their heads.