Time Slanders America
Time magazine has a cover story, “Is America Islamophobic?” Based on an interview the author, Bobby Gosh, did with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, the answer is an emphatic yes. Islamophobia is “taking root,” Gosh insists, in “places all over the country.” It is the new anti-Semitism, we are told. And when Olbermann asked why America was becoming Islamophobic now rather than in the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, Gosh quickly corrected him. We were plagued by irrational anti-Muslim fears back then as well. “It was pretty overt in the immediate aftermath of 9/11,” Mr. Gosh informs us. But “we weren‘t paying attention because this country had gone through this trauma.”