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Earlier this year, Representative Peter King (R-NY) held Congressional hearings on the purported “Radicalization” of the American Muslim community. Now he wants to do it again this week. Singling out [...]
In American history, there have been flash points of controversy, contrasted to continued struggles for equality. Americans from the Muslim community has moved from the former to the latter. Since the summer’s media obsession over Park51, wrongly dubbed the “Ground Zero Mosque,” we have seen many flash points flare up, from the Murfreesboro [...]
It is a nightmare for an entire religious tradition to be put on the stand as a collective for the actions of an extreme few. It is worse still when the extreme few are such a miniscule fraction of the population.
In spite of mounting evidence that Muslim Americans are excelling at collaboration with American [...]
“My student just sent 500 of his closest friends and me an e-mail that says Obama is a radical Muslim only pretending to be a Christian. He wrote that if Obama becomes president, our country will be run by a terrorist. How should I respond to his e-mail?” This was the last question — the [...]
Socially and professionally, we as American Jews have often felt that they were being ‘put on the stand’ for our beliefs. Sometimes our beliefs even seemed to be on trial nationally – notably during the Red Scares leading up to and during the Cold War, when a disproportionate number of Jews were blacklisted.
But seldom [...]
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