“[A]s long as the press is busting myths related to Islam and terrorism, perhaps it is time to revisit the deeply entrenched idea that America experienced a post-9/11 backlash against Muslim-Americans — and will likely experience a new wave of Islamophobia. After months of hand-wringing from the national media, who clearly distrusted those rubes in flyover country to restrain their ‘get the Muslims’ anger, the tragic tally was one American — a Sikh gas station owner in Arizona — shot and killed as ‘revenge’ for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. An act, incidentally, perpetrated by a man, according to the court that sentenced him, suffering from ‘mental illness and [a] low IQ,’ and unclear on the differences between Islam and Sikhism.” (11/11/09)