The First Amendment, being words on paper, cannot defend against anything. It is only people—those who take those words and turn them into living, breathing ideas—that can make a difference.
It would be a dark and soulless world without our religious institutions to coax us to care for each other and to believe in something greater than ourselves.
By an overwhelmingly bipartisan U.S. Senate vote, Rashad Hussain was confirmed this month as America’s first Muslim Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.