27 August 2010

The New Religious Intolerance

Throughout the U.S. and Europe prejudice against Muslims is reaching a fever pitch. How might this poisonous trend be stopped?

We are witnessing an alarming resurgence of a type of religious intolerance we thought the nations of the U. S. and Europe had outgrown. Not since the anti-Catholic movement of the late 19th century has the U. S. known a religious panic such as the one that is now linking Muslims to terrorism, forbidding the building of mosques in many U. S. cities and towns, and poisoning the climate of community, school and workplace relations in communities across the nation. [Forbes.com] Read more