Why Standing Against Anti-Islam Bigotry Matters“Over the past few months, a growing cadre of conservative (and even some liberal) politicians and pundits have painted a fairly negative picture of people who argue that most Muslims are not, in fact,...

Why Standing Against Anti-Islam Bigotry Matters

Over the past few months, a growing cadre of conservative (and even some liberal) politicians and pundits have painted a fairly negative picture of people who argue that most Muslims are not, in fact, terrorists committing horrible atrocities. Unsettled by the murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists in France, right-wing figureheads attacked President Obama for attempting to dispel negative stereotypes of Muslims at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accusing him of being an “apologist for radical Islamic terrorists.” Meanwhile, various Fox News commentators have pushed back against attempts to disassociate the larger American Muslim population from the two ISIS-affiliated extremists who attempted to storm an anti-Islam conference in Texas, and even Bill O’Reilly took flak from fellow conservatives for calling a “Draw Muhammad” contest “stupid” because it was “insulting the entire Muslim world.”

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