The True History of Islamophobia

One of the Biden Administration's very last acts in office was to release a "combat Islamophobia" document, which argues that Muslims in America have "routinely experienced hate ... due to baseless stereotypes." There are only two ways to understand this: either Americans are really dumb and/or evil, buying into and acting on any "baseless" trope thrown their way; or else what Muslims “routinely experience” is not built atop “baseless stereotypes” but rather something else — perhaps reality.

History — fourteen centuries of it — strongly argues for this second interpretation.