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Reza Aslan: Trump Is Popular Because Of "Islamophobia"
Frontpagemag.com ^ | April 12, 2016 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 04/12/2016 4:17:15 AM PDT by Biggirl

In an adulatory Los Angeles Times interview last Friday, Leftist media darling Reza Aslan asserts that Donald Trump’s popularity reveals that “a large swath of us [is] xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic. And we pretend that we’re not. And now it’s out in the open and can’t be ignored any longer.” He has, of course, nothing to say about the possibility that Trump’s supporters could be favoring their candidate because of his apparently strong stance against jihad terror attacks and the endless threats of mass murder and destruction from the Islamic State.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aslan; islamophobia; islamoterror; rezaaslan; robertspencer; trump
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To: Biggirl

Is a phobia a fear in general or an irrational fear?


21 posted on 04/12/2016 5:31:29 AM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: CriticalJ

A phobia has been redefined as a politically-inconvenient rational concern.


22 posted on 04/12/2016 8:15:54 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

I like it and seems about right.


23 posted on 04/12/2016 8:42:58 AM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: BuffaloJack

Everybody with two braincells to rub together knows by now what Islam is about and what it does. And it ain’t good. So the name calling isn’t effective anymore.

It can be used all day by propagandists like the author who did it here, but all that does it reduces whatever influence that author once had.

This author and others like him, that throw the term “Islamaphobe” around know they’re full of it.


24 posted on 04/12/2016 9:51:23 AM PDT by uncitizen (there's no "conservative country" without a country)
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To: Biggirl
UK Equalities Chief Who Popularised Term ‘Islamophobia’ Admits: ‘I Should Have Known Better’
25 posted on 04/12/2016 11:48:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Biggirl

I take it that islamaphobia means common sense?


26 posted on 04/12/2016 4:28:36 PM PDT by jospehm20
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