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A substantial portion of the right-wing movement actually believes that the Islamists are coming to take over America.
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    of the islamo-phobes:

    1) the claim that 'muslims are gonna get you' echoes the most radical Islamic claims that 'Christians are gonna get you.' That is, they are essentially supporting the radical Islamic claim that 'the west is anti-Islamic.'

    2) what they desire - some kind of broad-based, government sanctioned anti-muslim enterprise (what exactly?) - is the hallmark of those countries in the middle-east that they claim to so hate (i.e. those who think kicking out the Christians and Jews will solve their problems).

    3) so generally, their stance embodies what they claim hate about their enemy, which is I think how such things tend to go. ("They are intolerant of us! I hate them because they hate us! They hate peace! Let's kill them!")