"Growing numbers of people in Europe and the United States subscribe to this belief system; in some instances it borders on hysteria. Adherents of this ideological Islamophobia view Islam as an existential threat to the world, especially to the “West.”
Moreover, they believe that leaders and governments in the Western world are consciously or unconsciously collaborating to allow Islam to “infiltrate” and eventually conquer democratic societies." Abraham Foxman
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Abe Foxman is the head of the Anti-Defamation League. He has this right. As I have written before, there is a campaign underway to establish in the public mind the notion of the innate danger that Islam and Muslims pose for the West and its peoples.
The general condemnation of any group of people is inherently a bad idea. In the case of Muslims it is a particularly bad idea since Islam in spite of its self-image of unity is not one thing. It is many things.
Foxman points to the pro-Israel bias of many of those seeking to demonize Muslims as Catholics and Jews were once demonized. He is an intelligent man and must understand that the Israeli government is probably involved in this political warfare against Muslims. pl
