Bullies do it when called out – “He started it!” Aggressive haters always claim the hatred started with their enemies.  So, Donald Trump’s first and everlasting claim: “Islam hates us!”  So many ways that this idea is not true, and profoundly damaging as it gets rooted in America.  How Islamophobia was cultivated here and the consequences are subjects covered in Lawrence Pintak’s new book America & Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump.