Critics of the Cordoba mosque that has been proposed for a site a couple of blocks away from the location of the former World Trade Center have been labeled Islamophobic. That's not a very accurate term. Something like misislamic would be more useful -- at least in certain instances -- as it suggests hostility rather than fear.
Fear, however, seems to have been at work at The Washington Post and several other newspapers when they decided not to run a "Non Sequitur" cartoon earlier this month. Playing off the popular Where's Waldo? children's books, the cartoon showed a busy park scene. A label above the cartoon read, "Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher . . . " A label below it read, "Where's Muhammad?"
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