Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion

New York faith leaders join ‘No Kings’ march against Trump administration agenda

Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Quran. That is how we are meant to be in the world, compassionate and merciful,” he said. “Today we’re reminded that there are those who do not want that compassion and mercy of the world, those who not only want to be our kings, but who wish to be our masters.”