{"id":3984,"date":"2010-10-03T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2019-05-15T00:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:56:34","slug":"challenging_islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2010\/10\/challenging_islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for American Progress: Challenging Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/wajahat_cap.png\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Wajahat Ali<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>One of the most serious threats to American security comes from anti-Muslim hate speech within our borders that portrays America as at war with Islam. 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