By Edward E. Curtis IV In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has revealed widespread misconceptions about the practice of Islam in this country — and the role of mosques in particular.
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It can sometimes be difficult to keep up with the events that have been unfolding in the Middle East over the past few months. To better grasp these events, The Guardian has created an interactive timeline of protests, regime changes and international responses in the Middle East. By using this comprehensive tool, students and teachers
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By Joan Brodsky Schur, Village Community School The vilification of the “religious other” is nothing new in America and in fact has a long history.  This lesson is designed to shed perspective on the sources and nature of today’s anti-Islam rhetoric by looking back to a period of virulent anti-Catholicism in United States history.  It
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