Counter Punch: High minded academics have been reminding us for years, Orientalism is endemic in the high and low cultures of Western countries.   But at a visceral, intuitive level, Islamophobia never used to be – except perhaps in France and England, to the extent that habits of mind that took shape during the days of the French and British empires survive, or in Spain, where memories of Iberia’s Moorish past linger. Click here to read more (external link).