New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on Anti-Muslim Backlashes

November 11, 2009

One can always find, in a nation of 300 million people, examples of boorish behavior towards religious minorities, writes Michael C. Moynihan. But if Muslims that embrace violence against non-Muslims are a tiny minority, it is time to acknowledge that attacks on Muslims by non-Muslims in the United States are perpetrated by an even tinier minority. That the United States doesn’t do backlashes needs to be restated frequently and forcefully, rather than ignored in favor of exploiting a “teachable moment” of religious tolerance.

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