Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110508:04:28:00
Father of american islamophobia. that's the label dean abdala gave him in an opinion piece he wrote for cnn.com. he explains bin laden's actions on september 11th made people see him as an arab first and an american second. dean joins us live from new york. why do you call him bin laden the father of islamophobia? >> well, i think clearly he's the mastermind of 9/11 and that's the event that sent the whole chain of motion to where we are today. where islamophobia is part of the normal discourse of conversation. you can have candidates demonizing muslims and there's not a backlash. it raises th...
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