The Targeting of Muslims is a Core Religious-Freedom Problem

This Crux article, by a researcher at a Georgetown initiative on Christian-Muslim relations, criticizes the USCCB for not emphasizing, in the Fortnight for Freedom, that the violent or harassing targeting of Muslims is a central religious-freedom problem. (Various Catholic groups, and prominent lay Catholics like our own Robbie George, have given it prime emphasis in recent months.) Here's what the article says about the USCCB:

At its most basic level, Islamophobia is a religious freedom issue. American families can’t go to their houses of worship without fear of them being sprayed with bullets or graffiti. Men and women feel they must change the way they dress to receive fewer stares and the threat of assaults. Children are bullied at school because they are Muslim.

This is a reality that should alarm all Americans, especially Catholics concerned about issues of religious liberty.

But Islamophobia is not an issue at the forefront of the USCCB’s agenda or the Fortnight for Freedom campaign. The only reference to Muslims in the materials on the USCCB’s Fortnight webpage was in an article reposted from National Catholic Register, which spoke about “militant factions of Islam” that “kill Christian believers” in the Middle East.

Is this accurate? I share the author's premise that religious-freedom claims of various faiths tend to stand or fall together, and thus the freedom of Muslims (and Christians) must be vigorously protected. But I haven't followed this year's Fortnight, or the bishops' statements generally. If the piece is accurate, what is the explanation?