Todd Green is an associate professor of religion at Luther College. A nationally recognized expert on Islamophobia, he served as a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department in 2016-17, where he offered his expertise on Islamophobia in Europe. He is the author of The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West and Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn’t Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism. The following essay is based on the latter.