Islam and Minnesota: Can we hear some straight talk for a change?

The Star Tribune reports:

On what seems like a daily basis, Minnesotans are lectured against the evils of “Islamophobia.” In October, Gov. Mark Dayton weirdly instructed “white, B-plus, Minnesota-born citizens” to suppress their qualms about immigrant resettlement in Minnesota, according to the St. Cloud Times. If they can’t, they should “find another state,” he added.

Andrew Luger, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, took to the pages of the Star Tribune (“Minnesota must meet Islamophobia head-on,” Nov. 3) to inveigh against “the current wave of Islamophobia” and has stayed on the attack. A group of local leaders and Muslim leaders recently gathered in a Minneapolis mosque to decry “Islamophobia” following recent terrorist attacks.

Even Hillary Clinton piled on during her recent visit to the University of Minnesota to unveil her program to bolster homeland security; she decried “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

“Islamophobia” is a concept fervently promoted since 2000 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. It seeks to stigmatize expressions of disapproval of Islam as irrational manifestations of fear and prejudice. Implicitly, it raises the question of whether any fear of Islam is necessarily crazy. It also raises the question of whether some fear of Islam might be rational, but it instructs us to keep any unapproved answer to ourselves. It seeks to make us afraid to talk about perfectly reasonable fears.

An article , well worth your time.