A segment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism's new award-winning documentary "Jihad in America: The Grand Deception" focuses on Islamists and how they try to control public perception. Part of it is by manipulating a lazy and gullible media. But another part is to shut down any criticism of Islamist ideology – the notion that society is best governed by Islamic law.

During a recent panel discussion on the film, panelists – including two anti-Islamist Muslims – discussed the way phony accusations of "Islamophobia," or bigotry, are used to stigmatize critics.