The ‘new’ rhetoric of Islamophobia

For years, Koch, King and others who share their anti-Muslim views hid behind that word: “radical”. They said that they have no problem with Muslims as people or Islam as a religion. It is only “radical Islam” or “Islamists” that they can’t abide. Lately that caveat has been thrown to the winds. To Islamophobes (actually Islamohaters) “radical” Islam is just Islam. And “radical” Muslims are just Muslims. Full article.