Anti-Muslim punditry migrated from Europe to American audiences.

Evidence

While on a walk through the Loop, I tuned in to a discussion between Sam Harris, part of the intellectual vanguard of the new atheist movement, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali Dutch pundit who called Islam a “mental cage” in her widely read book Infidel. This book made Hirsi Ali a staple of the anti-Muslim movement in Europe, and later, the United States. Harris and Ali were eloquent, and their analysis was clear and accessible. This, along with their liberal sensibilities, wooed massive audiences from the political left and center. I could understand, listening to their discussion, why they were so effective in reeling in legions of listeners from across the political spectrum. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 314

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the global-synthesis view the reader is building alongside Iftikhar — this is documentation of the intellectual pipeline moving from European anti-Muslim discourse into US audiences.