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Maybe this is ignorant bc Islamophobia never went away or anything but it definitely feels like there was a real peak of Islamophobia during the Bush era and after Osama bin Laden was assasinated it sort of dropped off to lower levels. It’d come back at various times (eg Charlie Hebdo) and maybe I was in a bubble but I never heard “we should glass the Middle East” told as a half joke half actual position after 2011 until the recent genocide in Gaza. But it’s really been feeling like the Bush era recently. The “why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages” from critics of religion, like the new atheists back in the day, the (actual) cancel culture. Idk i doubt im the first to notice this but just something I was thinking of today.