Most Feared Religious Group in America

About a century ago, millions of Americans feared that members of a religious group was amassing an arsenal of weapons for a secret, preplanned takeover of the United States.

The feared religious group wasn’t Muslims. It was, as Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Pearce wrote in a great piece in 2015, Catholics.

Source: German Lopez - "100 years ago, Americans talked about Catholics the way they talk about Muslims today", Vox, 18 Jan 2017, http://www.vox.com/2017/1/18/14312104/islamophobia-catholics