Article: The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality.

"The Muslims AreComing! The Mu slims Are Coming!"; "Iran Resurgent"; "Iran's Lethal Secret." These headlines have a tabloid flavor, but they appear in some of America's leading newspapers and magazines. Nothing is simpler in American political culture than hyping alarm over Islam. Headline writers and book editors find it profitable to press the Islamic button, and national security bureaucracies do, too. At a time when old threats have waned, the "Green Peril" of Islam can give new purpose to well-worn and lavishly equipped strategies of containment.

Yet the alarmists are shouting fire in a combustible theater--one in which exits have not been marked. America's ...

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