The Never-Dying Post 9-11 Backlash Myth

by Jonathan S. Tobin
Commentary - Contentions
April 2, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2396/the-never-dying-post-9-11-backlash-myth

Excerpt:

Those determined to portray the life of American Muslims as a never-ending series of officially inspired torments have always confronted a basic problem: there is no tangible evidence that there is any wave of oppression that has reduced followers of Islam to second-class citizen status. Nor has there ever been. FBI crime statistics continue to show anti-Muslim hate cries dwarfed by those linked to Jew-hatred. Even when the mainstream media takes up the subject and treats the truth of this assertion as self-evident, such as last August's TIME magazine cover story that asked "Does America Have a Muslim Problem?" the authors had to admit that all they can come up with to back their claim were anecdotes.

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