islamphobia is nothing but xenophobia versus one group. it's part of it.but what happened is that the islamists lobby, the brotherhood lobby and the iranian lobby have hijacked that a notion and made it into a weapon. anybody who's criticizing a policy issue that has nothing to do with a religion, having to do with the five pillars, okay? they have been accused of islamphobia, and i think this is very close to what the national socialists in germany would have accused anybody who's criticizing their policies of being against the germans. and even at the international level, this has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy in the middle east on booktv's "after words with." and on april 6th, more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary bing west with your calls and comments live "in depth" starting at noon eastern. booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> peter stark is next on booktv. he recalls the partnership between business magnate john jacob astor and thomas jefferson, creating a kohl think

. >> i do recognize that us ramphobia -- islamphobia exists. if it's explained irrational fear of islam and, therefore, negative attitude towards a community, i am absolutely against it. it is part of xenophobia. islamphobia is nothing more than xenophobia versus one group. it's part of it. but what happened is that the islamists lobby, the brotherhood lobby and the iranian lobby have hijacked that notion and made it into a weapon. anybody who's criticizing a policy issue that has nothing to do with -- [inaudible] having to do with the fife pillars, okay? they have been accused of islamphobia, and i think this is very close to what the national socialists in germany would have been against the german race. and even at the international level this has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy in the middle east tonight at 10 eastern and tomorrow night at 9 on booktv's "after words." and on april 6th, more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary bing west with your calls and commen

we watch islamphobia rise up, not that it was not racism before, but it's taken on more in the last decadethat got me thinking of what is latent in the mainstream america and culture that allows for people to be duped in this way, and as i was experiencing watching that in our country, i was also reading a lot of the early asian-american movement material trying to connect racism here with foreign policy, and that argument makes sense all the way back in american history where forms of domestic racism and stereotypes really affect the sort of u.s. foreign policy in general and the willingness to invade or the willingness to allow for the deft of less than human people, and so one of the things that we've been trying to do by gatt and the key threads of that and the idea of the coming war, and i think it really ill lot straits the problem for all americans even if they don't think of themselves at the direct targets targets -- there's christian superiority, and in that context as problems arise, as foreign policy fails or has economic policy that fails, there's no room for introspection for

they have been accused of islamphobia, and i think this is very close to what the national socialists in germany would have been against the german race. and even at the international level this has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy in the middle east tonight at 10 eastern and tomorrow night at 9 on booktv's "after words." and on april 6th, more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary bing west with your calls and comments, live "in depth" starting at noon eastern. booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >> why is it that it's the one name we all know? and it really is because of her man, because she married john adams. and i must say being here today i feel like i've come home, because i've come to john and abigail's home and also home that all three sisters spent a lot of time in. but the other two sisters that i think you know less about, i argue in my book, are even though they didn't can marry presidents -- they didn't marry presidents, they're equally important and remarkable women. first, there's the oldest sis