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An online publication of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Religious Freedom

Limited Access to Islamic Books and Conflicting Visions of Redemption in American Prisons

By Rebecca Makas  //  April 9, 2020April 28, 2020

The image of the voracious reader in prison is a powerful trope of film and literature, from The Shawshank Redemption to the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Based on the idea of redemption through education, it…

When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom

By Asma T. Uddin  //  September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Dressed in an all-white suit with a white tie, attorney Joe Brandon, Jr., paced back and forth in the county courthouse in Rutherford County, Tennessee, peppering witnesses with incendiary questions. On some of the six…

Countering Violent Extremism, No Muslim Ban, and the Religious Freedom of Muslims in American Secularism

By Sharmin Sadequee     //  February 13, 2019

In Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the United States Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s broad travel restrictions targeting the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries. Numerous Muslim Americans and social justice advocates were outraged by this…

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