We’ve now had almost fifteen years of continual anti-Muslim propaganda. Certainly murderous extremist Muslim groups have been a trigger for the xenophobic response, but it’s widely recognized that Islam is not the only religion that has produced violent fanatics. It’s also abundantly clear that the vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, nearly a quarter of humanity, do not support and bear no responsibility for the acts of fanatics. In fact, they make up most of their victims. The recent murder of three young Muslim college students in North Carolina is a chilling example of the long-term result of xenophobic propaganda.
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