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On Monday, the CBS Evening News ran a full story about fears of continued Islamophobia in America following the terror attack in San Bernardino and turned to none other than the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for help, but neglected to mention CAIR’s extremist tendencies and how an official recently blamed the United States and the West for the spread of terrorism.
After the lead story was dedicated to Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, anchor Scott Pelley used that as a jumping off point to assume that Americans have turned away from Muslims: “Well, Muslim-Americans are already feeling the divide in their communities here at home.”