Equating Muslim struggles with past civil-rights fights erases the bloodshed of both

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Islamophobia is here mapped onto and equated with all those previous struggles against discrimination, from anti-Catholicism to civil rights, in a patriotic reiteration of America’s inherent capacity to integrate and forgive. Nothing is said about the struggles, bloodshed, and loss of life that always accompany this drawn-out and painful process. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 296