Does U.S. tolerate anti-Muslim speech?

A target? Some observers say Muslim-Americans, like these worshipers at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio, are the subject of hate speech.Melanie Stetson Freeman – staff/file

"My sense is that you could say anti-Muslim comments that you could never get away with, saying for example, as anti-Jewish comments," said Stephen Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence in Portland, Maine. "There's a much greater public level of acceptance of denigrating Muslims."