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Robert Wright: ?Islamophobia and homophobia?

By Alliance Alert

Robert Wright writing in The New York Times / Opinionator: "[H]owever 'natural' this irrational fear, it's dangerous. As Islamophobia grows, it alienates Muslims, raising the risk of homegrown terrorism ? and homegrown terrorism heightens the Islamophobia, which alienates more Muslims, and so on: a vicious circle that could carry America into the abyss. So it's worth taking a look at why homophobia is fading; maybe the underlying dynamic is transplantable to the realm of inter-ethnic prejudice . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).