Is the recent “Islamophobia” ... an indicator that America is becoming increasingly xenophobic?

[pampango]

http://www.oudaily.com/news/2010/sep/13/our-view-when-telling-all-sides-backfires/

Few seem to care that a mosque already exists within the same proximity of Ground Zero as the proposed Cordoba House (the true name of the “Ground Zero mosque”), or that the lead organizer of Cordoba, Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf, worked with the Bush administration to improve relations with Muslims abroad.

He reveals how the mosque initially was not a controversial topic at all. The New York Times ran an article on the mosque in December 2009, to no uproar. Later that month, guest host of Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Laura Ingraham, even voiced support for it. Yes, Fox News once supported the Cordoba House.

Islamophobia was finally given center stage in mainstream media five months later when New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser gave voice to crazy conservative activist, Pamela Geller. We say crazy because she is a well-known conspiracy theorist who has even speculated that Malcolm X is President Barack Obama’s father.

Immanuel Wallerstein, a senior research scholar at Yale University, writes in a Sept. 1 commentary that xenophobia often occurs during hard economic times, because populist groups fear the values of their country are “in decline.” Wallerstein concludes that the only way to combat xenophobia is if citizens and leaders truly “embrace egalitarian values, including the right of all kinds of communities to observe their autonomy.”

[Turbineguy]

1. More likely just falling victim to RW propaganda.

[BeFree]

2. yep

A noun, a verb, and 9/11.

They have milked their mistakes for a million more times than it's worth.

"We Saved America on 9/11"