“Quite possibly, bearing the cross might mean opening our homes to immigrants, confronting our racist uncles at Thanksgiving dinner, taking to the streets, and putting our bodies on the line.”
“Resistance will require us to renounce our own tendencies to espouse practices of Islamophobia, patriarchy, and homophobia in our congregations and denominations,” says Rev. Leslie Callahan.
Whether cavalier attitudes or crippling dread, the varied responses of American Muslims to Trump’s election reflect our political diversity—we are anything but homogeneous.