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Tee Bryan Peneguy wrote:  “No. I don’t see how. No other group categorized in the area of religion or belief as feared and hated in America like the Muslims are…”

That’s only because people have been stirred up over the past 20 years to associate Muslims with terrorism.  Even though Jews and Catholics are at the top of the poll you cited, there’s still a certain amount of anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic feeling going around.  And in Conservative America there certainly are people who hate Wiccans and Buddhists and New Agers.  These groups are just not as “in your face” these days as gays and Muslims are, which is why we don’t have “-phobias” for them.  I would just point out that there really hasn’t been a big Muslim terrorist strike in the United States since 9/11!  Most of the mass shootings we’ve had lately have been done by white guys.  I don’t know about anybody else, but I don’t hate Muslims just for being Muslims.  What I hate is terrorism.  I hate anybody who shoots indiscriminately at unarmed civilians, whether they happen to be Muslims or White Supremacists or atheists.