In extreme cases, a culture may have so demeaned or dehumanised a particular community that hate speech against it sounds normal and unobjectionable to many people, including journalists.
The Islamophobia industry uses lawfare to skew the conversation about Islam. Its fingerprints are on the President’s executive order.
The tale of two places of worship, in the United States and Indonesia, suggests that fighting actual discrimination is more important than silencing hate speech.
