New York’s interfaith leaders have termed last summer the “Summer of Intolerance.” Negative bloggers sparked a heated national debate about a Muslim-run community center in Lower Manhattan that went far beyond laws regarding private property and religious institutions and invoked two intolerable questions: can Muslims truly be American — and if so, will Muslim Americans be treated as equal citizens?
The answer to both must be yes. They should also sound like rhetorical questions. Now a new program called “Our Better Angels” is working to make them so.
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