{"id":357,"date":"2012-08-17T00:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=357"},"modified":"2012-08-16T04:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:54:21","slug":"the-sham-terrorism-expert-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/08\/17\/the-sham-terrorism-expert-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The sham \u201cterrorism expert\u201d industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

A detailed examination of the topic (read it all here<\/A>) by Salon.com<\/I>‘s Glenn Greenwald explains just how “common group identity and career interest” is used by a group of “terrorism experts” to sustain “the myth of the Grave Threat of Islamic Terror in order to justify their fear-based careers”.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, the “menace of Islamic terrorism…is wildly exaggerated…, [and] is sustained by ugly sentiments of Islamophobic bigotry”. <\/p>\n

But we already knew this, right? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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