From: Seth Barrett Tillman, Return of the Letter to a Young Social Justice Warrior—responding to Lamya H.’s: A personal history of Islamophobia in America, Vox (January 15, 2016), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2719141. . ..…

Our elected officials cannot merely spectate while Islamophobia and racism increase across the nation. ..…

We have long way to go to address racism, Islamophobia, and other forms of biases and hate that exist here at home. ..…

As a consequence, xenophobia, Iranophobia, and Islamophobia expressed through violence against Muslims, migrants and refugees is on the rise. ..…

Islamophobia had become the language of empire, the roar of its violence turned back from the sands of Iraq and the mountain passes of Afghanistan, and leveled against the mosque down the turnpike, the hijabi in the checkout line, Sikh behind the register — the neighbors. By the catastrophic..…