If there was one unifying theme to this year’s Republican National Convention — in addition to a seething, “lock her up!” hatred of Hillary Clinton — it was an unthinking and uncaring Islamophobia. The political party that claims to champion national security and Christian values has lost its mind and forfeited its soul.
I’m careful not to overuse the word “phobia.” In the current culture wars, we too readily “phobiaize” the views of our political opponents. But what the Republican party displayed in Cleveland was textbook phobia: an irrational fear disproportionate to the threat.
As a Christian who served in the Bush and Obama administrations, I watched in dismay....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/07/25/on-islam-the-gop-has-lost-its-mind-and-forfeited-its-soul/
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