CNN's T. J. Holmes brought back Time's Bobby Ghosh on Friday's Newsroom for more promotion of his "Islamophobia" cover story, and added two Muslim guests who largely agreed with his thesis that anti-Islamic sentiment was "coming into the mainstream," and how this was apparently a "reason for alarm." Holmes asked softball questions, and no one with an opposing viewpoint appeared during the segment.The anchor had the three on for a panel discussion at the bottom of the 10 am Eastern hour about Ghosh's "Is America Islamophobic?" article, as well the controversy over the planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. Before introducing his guests, Holmes held up two examples of apparent "Islamophobia" in the country and seemed to sympathize with the apparent plight of Muslims in the U.S.:HOLMES: Two-and-a-half million Muslims live, work and pray in America- not always easy. Case in point: protests in California- check
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certainly be welcome. williams: for perspective and reflection we talk with presidential historian and author dorr rinse kearns goodwin adam gopnik, essayist for the new yorker magazine. osama s left in our minds a certain uncertainty. what do we know about what he s doing in only a year ago you had folks in washington saying we haven t had any intelligence about him for years. so that uncertainty is now gone. we now can say for ourselves that people like him can be got no matter how safe and we are transfering that uncertainty to ayman al-zawahiri and everybody around him. we re now looking out of their windows wherever they are. they re not in caves. they re looking out of their windows and wondering when does that helicopter come with me? williams: we conclude with an interview charlie taped with steve levy of wired magazine whose new book is called in the plex: how google works, shapes, and changes our lives. the biggest challenge is thinking like a small comp