Muslim groups criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s new “strategy” for dealing with anti-Muslim prejudice (“Islamophobia”) and anti-Arab hatred, saying it failed to address the Gaza “genocide” and was “too little, too late.”
The strategy continues the White House’s habit of drawing an equivalence between antisemitism and Islamophobia. It cites a “sharp rise in Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and hatred against Arab and other Americans in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel,” omitting the fact that the terror attacks were carried out by radical Islamists, and the fact that some of the culprits in the recent rise in antisemitism are Muslim, while the reverse is less often true.
Still, it did not go far enough for some Muslim groups. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which helped water down the White House antisemitism…
