Peter King

Peter King Hearings: A Crystallizing Moment for the Interfaith Movement?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Joshua Stanton

The hearings Representative Peter King recently held on the supposed “radicalization” of American Muslims are widely considered to be the most counterproductive in recent history. They sin... Read More

Video Blog: “Islamophobia: The New McCarthyism?”

Posted on March 15, 2011March 15, 2011 by Joshua Stanton

Here is my interview with Odyssey Networks on why, as a Jew, I find the Peter King hearings so disturbing. Do you find them disturbing? If so, why? On the bright side, as noted in Religious Freedom U... Read More

25 Leading Rabbis (and two students!) Speak Out Against Islamophobia

Posted on March 10, 2011March 10, 2011 by Joshua Stanton

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, may have said it best: Ever since the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, hatred and discrimination against Muslim... Read More

Listen to Lupe, Ellison and Eboo: It’s Time to Hear From More Muslims

Posted on March 9, 2011March 9, 2011 by Chris Stedman

As I sit here contemplating Representative Peter King’s (R-NY) upcoming “Muslim radicalization” hearings, trying to discern if my stomach ache is the result of the cookies I’m... Read More

Muslim-Americans and “We the People”

Posted on March 6, 2011March 7, 2011 by Jason Kerr

The recent events in Egypt produced many stirring images, among them those of Muslims joining hands so that Coptic Christians could hold Christmas mass unmolested in the wake of a suicide bombing outs... Read More

Destructive Nature of the Muslim “Radicalization” Hearings

Posted on February 21, 2011February 22, 2011 by Joshua Stanton

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 th... Read More