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I would disagree with your conclusion, not your premises tho. I think the media is coordinating a vast cover up of Muslim organized terror, however I don't think the fear of retaliation against Muslims is realistic. If it didn't happen after 9/11, it will never happen. Americans, by and large, are not bloodthirsty or stupid enough to blame a whole group of people for the actions of a subset within that group.

I don't know what motivation the media has for this. Perhaps the evidence about Islamic militant conspiracies is so great they fear the public would go mad from paranoia were it to go mainstream.

I think the media is simply reflecting our current culture by "covering up" the threat of Islamist terror. Many people I have spoken with (to the disbelief of myself and my wife) are in complete denial and don't want to hear that about the possibility that radical Islam is engaged in war against us, and that radical Islam represents a credible threat. These people just want the problem to go away - so they ignore it. Hard to believe isn't it? Has anyone else had similar experiences with the people they work with or see around town?

Frankly, where it comes to many in the media, they are afraid that identification of radical Islamists perpetrating terror (like sniper or guy who attacked El Al at LAX) plays into Bush's hand.