A detailed examination of the topic (read it all here) by Salon.com‘s Glenn Greenwald explains just how “common group identity and career interest” is used by a group of “terrorism experts” to sustain “the myth of the Grave Threat of Islamic Terror in order to justify their fear-based careers”.

Truthfully, the “menace of Islamic terrorism…is wildly exaggerated…, [and] is sustained by ugly sentiments of Islamophobic bigotry”.

But we already knew this, right?