Anti-Muslim activism is a lucrative enterprise for its promoters.

Evidence

What is especially remarkable, with all the money flowing into this propaganda machine, is how profitable it can be to bash Muslims. A reporter for The Tennesseean , Bob Smietana, noticed how much attention the Murfreesboro mosque controversy was getting from outside groups, and his investigative reporting unearthed a veritable treasure trove of money being made by key players on the anti-Islam circuit. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 30

Categorization

• SEED: The material self-interest beneath moral panic is an essay angle: how outrage economies convert supposedly principled ideological fear into cash.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader analysis of liberalism’s scapegoating and the manufacture of moral panics elsewhere in this edited volume. — connects to: Ex-Muslim status with anti-Islam messaging is a profitable career strategy; Ex-Muslim identity functions as a profitable career asset in the Islamophobia industry. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 702