Very apt lines for this situation
"We live in a society where it is possible to point a finger at a Muslim abroad and say that they have WMD and are a threat to national security and no questions are asked. Now those who 'protect' us feel emboldened to point the same finger at ..... Muslims [closer to home]. Muslims are labelled guilty by association. Doubt is insufficient to save them. They are assumed guilty before being proven innocent. We are very close to living in the days of Salem. If the head of counter-terrorism becomes a Witch-Finder General then any Muslim or Muslim-looking person or sympathiser best take cover."
... taken from a situation involving someone who lost their primary work clearance on rather questionable grounds too, due to guilt by association on the basis of the activities of the 9-year old and 11-year old children of said person.
I had heard about such security-related work discrimination before -- and not just in Europe -- but it's finally making the press in bigger ways:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/leg...cle1961446.ece