The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record ran my latest column today, which is entitled "King Hearings Creating Division." It is a critique of the congressional hearings that Representative Peter King of New York has convened, which target Muslims. I argue that such a narrow, sectarian focus in inappropriate. As I noted in my new book (Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics), Muslims have become one of the main disenfranchised classes in our age of confessional politics.King Hearings Creating Division
The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record ran my latest column today, which is entitled "King Hearings Creating Division." It is a critique of the congressional hearings that Representative Peter King of New York has convened, which target Muslims. I argue that such a narrow, sectarian focus in inappropriate. As I noted in my new book (Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics), Muslims have become one of the main disenfranchised classes in our age of confessional politics.
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