Is Islamophobia Justified?

[abaris]

Islam might spread enough that it becomes majority in US. Muslims also tend to have more kids then Christians and Atheists in the west...so I don't know. Not anytime soon, but sometime down the future, this may happen.

Sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Even more so from a European perspective, since we aren't that much into religion anyway. Why should we suddenly embrace Islam? As far as I know, the muslim population in the US is 0,6 percent. It's a very small minority easily beaten by Latinos who tend to have more kids too. In Europe it's somewhere about 5 percent.

Being afraid of Islam is mainly due to fearmongering by rightwing groups who want to make a political dime by demonizing muslims. It's just scapegoating taken to a new level.

And it's also the media of course. Back in 2011 when breivik committed his atrocities, I happened to watch the German newschannel Phoenix. Within minutes after the bomb exploding, they were rambling about Islamistic terror and had an expert on Islamic extremism on. Of course it was a rightwing attack, but it goes to show the kind of bigotry we're dealing with. People dying because of a bomb, has to be an Islamist. Does it matter I didn't believe them right from the start, since it didn't fit the pattern? Most of the people did and that was the problem.