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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures | Religion Dispatches. Collectively, we are comfortable condemning the mistakes of the past, but never learning from them. As we turn Syrian refugees away, advocates for human decency pointed out that today’s refugee crisis had echoes to the Jewish…Continue readingIn “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures | Religion Dispatches

We Must Learn from the Armenian Genocide – Truman Doctrine Blog – Medium. Yet, as we see, the disease is not cancer, but autoimmune. The desire to create a nation-state causes the population to turn against itself, resulting in a body that is weakened and must collapse because of the…Continue readingWe Must Learn from the Armenian Genocide – Truman Doctrine Blog – Medium

City & State – Nonprofits confront fear in their communities. “I have always believed that the fastest way to get gun control legislation passed in this country is to mass mobilize the American Muslim community to start getting firearms,” said Hussein Rashid, a lecturer on Islamic and American culture, as…Continue readingCity & State – Nonprofits confront fear in their communities

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America | Religion Dispatches. As historians of South Asian America, we know that having your citizenship stripped because of the color of your skin is not unusual in our history. The United States has a long history of racism being…Continue readingTrump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America | Religion Dispatches