[maxharris]

If you usurp the language of conquest, how do you tell if you've also inherited the bigotry and intolerance that so often accompanies it?

Anyone, regardless of their ethnic background, is capable of holding any view. Race does not determine the content of the mind.

I'm sorry you don't like the word, but in the realm of ideas, there is such a thing as good or bad, better or worse, superior or inferior, etc.

Now that I think about it, I don't think "superior" is a strong enough word. Individualism is not merely superior to racism: the former is is true and good, while the latter is false and evil.

[dalke]

In that case, I think my views of multicultural secularism are superior to your views on individualism. In either case, neither are at all relevant to the OP's question, which is:

"How should we react to wholesale blaming of all Muslims for the violence, and to rising attitudes of suspicion towards Muslims?