The question of FBI entrapment of young Muslims.
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Erik Love studies civil rights advocacy in the United States, and is the author of 'Islamophobia and Civil Rights', forthcoming from New York Universi... ty Press. He is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
The question of FBI entrapment of young Muslims.
Only the perpetrators are to blame for the explosions – but the knee-jerk speculation about “the Muslims” continues.
Many of the recent attacks have taken place shortly after well-publicised anti-Muslim hate speeches, argues author.
The New York Police Department’s discriminatory profiling of Muslim communities affects all Americans.