I'm trying to get to the root of America's Islamaphobia

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9. I've come to think it has to do with Islamist suicide attackers as much as anything

Someone who believes in their religion strongly enough to martyr themselves is a scary enigma to those who mouth religion but really aren't completely convinced.

Religion in the US strikes me as being a mile wide and an inch deep, I say this after watching the many many Christians in my own life closely for decades, Islam seems to have a much deeper sense of conviction about it.

It also seems that most Muslim majority nations have some form of Sharia, it's telling that the most vocal opponents of Muslim Sharia are the Christians who would most like to institute Christian Sharia here.