I overheard the following in the locker room at the gym—

“… listening to a podcast the other day, and they said that when the Muslim population reaches 5%, they become emboldened and the attacks get worse. And right now? In America? They’re at like 4.83%.”

—and I have so many questions. Such as: 

• What exactly is your source? And how would you—or, rather, a reasonable person—describe the agenda/political bias of your source? 
• What source did the podcaster cite? 
• How exactly does someone measure “emboldenment”?
• Isn’t it really your dumb ass that has become recently “emboldened” to verbally shit out racist & xenophobic views? 

I’ll take my answer off the air.