Ask the Expert: Sally Steenland Answers Questions from Facebook Fans About Religion and Politics
How does anti-Muslim rhetoric put U.S. national security at risk? Why do religious debates get so much airtime when there are issues like poverty, lack of education, and inhuman living conditions spread wide across the world? Where's the line between separation of church and state and politics?
(transcript, mp4, YouTube)
For more information, see:
- Eleven Things You Need to Know About Islam in America Today by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Eleni Towns
- The Distorted Lens of Islamophobia by Sally Steenland
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