There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career 鈥渢errorism experts鈥 in the US that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the threat of terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of 鈥渞adical Islam鈥.
All sorts of polemicists build their public platforms by demonising Muslims and scoffing at concerns over 鈥淚slamophobia鈥. The most toxic ones insist that such a thing does not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the country and are physically attacked.