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Amid Anti-Islam Fearmongering, Muslims Should Actually Fear Other Americans

We’re now more than three years into Barack Obama’s tenure as an openly Christian president, and the “Muslim” rumors won’t go away. With anti-Muslim Obama attacks on the rise, a reminder: Muslims in America have a lot more to worry about than Christians.

In a Monday appearance on MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports, Rick Santorum spokeswoman Alice Stewart chastised Obama’s “radical Islamic policies.” Stewart would later say that she “misspoke,” but her fearmongering statement had already been set loose onto the public. One day later, Franklin Graham, son of televangelist Billy, would go on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to theorize that Obama may not be a Christian. “All I know is that under Obama, President Obama, the Muslims of the world, he seems to be more concerned about them than the Christians that are being murdered,” Graham said.

Obama himself has said time and again that he’s a Christian, doing everything from celebrating Christian holidays to publicly attending a Christian church. But the rumors are as persistent as they are grounded in fantasy. Worse still is that if Stewart and Graham are to be believed, American Muslims are waging a major aggression against American Christians, while in fact, quite the opposite is true …

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