"Paranoia and prejudice have long been instruments of right-wing politics in America, from the Red Scare and McCarthyism to the Nixonite Southern strategy. The current outbreak of Islamophobia represents the latest product of the same old manufacturing process."
Joe Conason in Salon explains why lower Manhattan now hosts anti-Muslim demonstrations.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
"What Motivates the Outpouring of Rancor against Muslims"?
Labels:
2010s,
9/11,
McCarthy,
New York,
Obama,
politics,
race and ethnicity,
religion,
twenty-first century
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