Last week I was returning from an appointment in Asheville, doing what I like to
do: listening to All Things Considered on National Public Radio. A story caught my
interest.
A Muslim scholar from Boston was being interviewed about the growing
discrimination the American Muslim has experienced since 9/11. He was expressing
how painful this had been, especially for persons in his community who were born in
the United States and considered this country the best place on earth for Muslims to
live because of the Jeffersonian values of religious freedom that are enshrined in our Constitution.
But then, he spoke of some gracious persons outside the Muslim community who continued to make
him hopeful about America and about its battle against religious and ethnic hatred. He recalled what had
happened in Columbia, TN, a couple of years ago... continue reading.
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