by Christopher Lin Sometime during the week of March 7, 2011, the House Committee on Homeland Security will hold hearings examining whether Muslim Americans are becoming radicalized and pose a threat to the nation’s security. Civil rights groups are worried that the hearings will turn into a political witch-hunt, akin to the anti-communist investigations conducted […]
Educating Against Religious Illiteracy
By Betsy Keating In September 2010 the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life released its results of a survey of Americans’ knowledge about different religions. (1) The survey questioned 3,412 Americans aged 18 and older last spring. On average, respondents answered only half of the thirty-two questions correctly. (2) These low scores […]