Reza Aslan, colonial erasure in discussion of Islamophobia at Northwestern University

On February 18, the Northwestern Community gathered to attend Reza Aslan’s talk entitled “Fear Inc.: The Industrialization of Islamophobia.” What ensued was a delicate dance of fallacies, faulty analogies, and criminal omissions, revolving around a weak interpretation of the title and concluding itself in the naïve thesis that Islamophobia ultimately solely exists because its perpetrators have not yet met enough Muslims.