I applaud the Globe for opening comments on this and similar opinion pieces. And from reading the comments it's plain that most readers don't fit into the narrative being pushed, that intolerance and hatred are behind the desire to minimize the effects of Islam on our free and open society. 

The writer gives it all away as soon as she says "Islamophobia", a word that ought to be banned from the pages of this and every other respectable journal. A phobia is an irrational fear, and there's nothing irrational about fearing a religion whose fundamental principle is "otherizing" the infidel. Worse, a prudent caution about a religion is not the same thing as intolerance towards its members. "Islamophobia" bundles it all together, and rational discourse becomes impossible because the label of hateful bigot is slapped on anyone who takes a different view from that of liberal commentators.