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Attacks on 9/11? let's turn to a fellow for the center for american progress. matt iglesias, good evening to you. >> good to be here. >> this anti-muslim unthinking hysteria first. is there more of it now than at any time after the week after 9/11 and if so, why? and if not, why does it seem that way? >> it seems to me there is. it is much more visible than it used to be. we're seeing it stoked by sarah palin, by newt gingrich, by others, in a way that we never had before 9/11. i think what's happening, when the economy goes down, people become anxious. you see a lot of increase in xenophobia,...

Others, in a way that we never had before 9/11. i think what's happening, when the economy goes down, people become anxious. you see a lot of increase in xenophobia, in fear and intolerance. and we've got the conservative movement leaders, very opportunisticly trying to play on people's anxieties and build this kind of anti-muslim hysteria in a way that president bush never did in 2001 and 2002. >> the 14th amendment redefinition, the idea that you can somehow repeal it. arizona's papers please law, sb-1070, the mosque protests. we've seen these things covered separately and identified as sepa...

Any time after the week after 9/11 and if so, why? and if not, why does it seem that way? >> it seems to me there is. it is much more visible than it used to be. we're seeing it stoked by sarah palin birk night gingrich, by others in ways we never had by 9/11. i think what's happening, when the economy goes down, people become anxious. you see a lot of increase in fear and intolerance. and we've got the conservative movement leaders, very opportunistic trying to play on people's anxieties and build this kind of anti-muslim hysteria in a way that president bush never did in 2001 and 2002. >> th...