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Are You An Islamophobe? by Phyllis Chesler Pajamas Media August 26, 2009 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/610/are-you-an-islamophobe Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: The greatest danger is a closed mind and a finger-on-the-trigger. The minds are closing all over Europe; rather late in the day, the small resistance emerges. American minds have also been shutting down for many years. For example, one is really not allowed to talk about race or religion (gender is fair game–look at all the photos of naked women that still surround us). One cannot say "black" or "African-American" without raising a storm. One dare not say "Islam" or "Muslim" without raising an even bigger storm. Americans (students, professors, journalists, film stars, media talking heads, left-liberal bloggers) are especially sensitive to the wrongs done to the Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims–and, no doubt, wrongs have been done. But these same Americans are a lot less sensitive to the sorrows, nay, the atrocities, that these very groups (Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims) inflict upon their very own and upon infidels. Read the complete original version of this item...
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