Time magazine's recent cover displays Islam's crescent moon and star fitted with the United States flag. The magazine asks the question, "Is America Islamophobic?" The question is generating quite a buzz."What the anti-mosque uproar tells us about how the U.S. regards Muslims," is the cover's subtitle for the question. On page 20, the title for the piece reads, "Islam in America. It's part of the fabric of life, but protests reveal a growing hostility to the religion of Muslims."In the middle of the piece, Time provides its readers with a timeline on "A Brief History of Intolerance in America," complete with photographs.Time's portfolio of propaganda in its Aug. 30 issue is certainly provocative, maybe as provocative as Imam Rauf's mosque proposal. But I don't think the purpose of the Time editors was simply to provoke. I think it was primarily to invoke fear -- the fear of peer pressure.Ironically, the question which asks Americans to evaluate...(Read Full Post)