But the author gets that the Catholic Church in America, with its big city immigrant Democrat culture, alienates America's rural people. However, it is not merely islamophilia, but its liberal politics, its evolutionism, its higher criticism, its reflexive condemnations of any and all Biblical fundamentalism or "literalism," its pro-gun control, its knee-jerk anti-Zionism and pro-"palestinianism," and its hostility to rural America.
I often wonder how the American Catholic Church and Generalissimo Franco are part of the same religion.
Apparently, you never read beyond the title of this article, did you? It does not speak of a backlash against Islam but rather, against the Catholic Church when it maintains a stance of solidarity with the "religion of peace". Ex: "Meanwhile, Catholic leaders in America and Europe seem more concerned about the dangers of Islamophobia than the dangers of Islam."
Please go back and read the article.