Anti-Muslim Feeling Mirrors U.S. Reception of Catholics
Sunday Gazette-Mail › October 18, 2010
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The mind-set is all too familiar: A radical religious group, lurking inside the country, owing loyalty to a foreign power, threatens America.
No one denies that its members have a right to worship as they please, but good Americans, patriots, feel compelled to call for curbs against the menace they present. Because of the number of Americans sharing these fears, calls for restrictions on the religion are voiced openly and unapologetically, even proudly.See the full content of this document
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Anti-Muslim Feeling Mirrors U.S. Reception of Catholics
Today this description may bring to mind the flap over the proposed Islamic cultural center near ground zero in New York, or recent calls for greater restrictions on Muslims in America, like banning their service on the Supreme Court or in the Oval Office. But in ...
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