Bowing to Islam's Phobia: Why Critics Get Silenced

Raise the ideology behind these attacks and you're often called a bigot before anyone hears the actual point — which protects perpetrators, not victims.

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Raise the ideology behind these attacks and you're often called a bigot before anyone hears the actual point — which protects perpetrators, not.

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Bowing to Islam's Phobia: Why Critics Get Silenced

Raise the ideology behind these attacks and you're often called a bigot before anyone hears the actual point — which protects perpetrators, not victims.

There's an argument worth taking seriously: that the real 'phobia' at work isn't fear of Islam — it's a resistance, within some currents of Islam, to criticism, especially public criticism.

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If that diagnosis is right, a few things follow.

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