Hussein Rashid

If American Muslims do not oppose torture and participate in the conversation on American morality, they become a special interest group with little relevance. But within Islam there is a strong religious case to be made against torture.

The word Islamophobia is used so broadly that it risks losing its meaning; fear is not the same thing as hatred.

In the debate over what it means to be a religious progressive, the terms of the religious right have been adopted and a new way must be forged.