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St. Louis Public Radio, part of the NPR digital network, reported breathlessly last week that "a 2013 report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) identifies a network of 37 organizations that systematically promote anti-Muslim sentiment in America through prejudice, fear and hatred. CAIR calls it Islamophobia."
As if anyone who has had access to radio, television, or the Internet over the last ten years wouldn't know that. The St. Louis Public Radio piece was just the latest in a steady stream of articles that have appeared over the last few years about the "Islamophobia" industry, a supposedly well-coordinated, well-funded band of bigots, hatemongers and racists who are doing their utmost to disrupt what would otherwise be a peaceful and harmonious welcoming of Muslims into the United States and other Western nations.
Faizan Syed, executive director of CAIR-St. Louis, articulated this mainstream view: