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Is The PC Battle to Pinpoint "Islamophobia" Misguided?

For those not yet caught up in this week’s media outrage-pocalypse, let’s brush up on one that’s currently ablaze all over social media and news sites--weighing in among them The New York Times ,  Salon , HuffPo , The Washington Post , CNN, Fox, Slate, The Daily Beast ,  Aljazeera , Washington Times, Politico, Politifact , The New Republic , and many more. Strangely, last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher spawned a 10 minute-clip of an exasperated Ben Affleck and a staid Sam Harris arguing on misaligned frames of reference about what constitutes fair criticism of islamic dogma and what crosses that line into liberal outcries of “Islamophobia”. The issue, in general that seems to divide people on this topic is a conversational misalignment. Simply put, liberals on both sides aren’t arguing about the same thing and it’s about time we all get on the same page.  Harris puts it succinctly: “The crucial point of confusion is that we have been sold this meme of Islamophobia wh