Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: the Fruits of Sustained Fearmongering and Anti-Muslim Animus

There are sprawlingindustries and self-proclaimedcareer“terrorism experts” in the U.S. thatprofit greatlybydeliberately exaggerating the threat of TerrorismandkeepingAmericans in a state of abject fear of “radical Islam.”There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public platformsby demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over“Islamaphobia,” with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thingdoes not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the country, o...