Threat of Imposing Religious Law in America Isn't from Muslims

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Threat of Imposing Religious Law in America Isn’t from Muslims

March 24, 2026

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 20: People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at Brooklyn's Prospect Park on March 20, 2026, in New York City. Hundreds of area Muslims attended the morning service, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, which marks the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. Around the world, people are celebrating the holiday as millions of Muslims in the Middle East are living in countries upended after the United States and Israel had launched strikes on Iran, which has resulted in retaliatory Iranian attacks across the region. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

(USA Today) — Nearly 250 years after the founding of this nation, the United States finds herself at a crossroads, asked to choose between two different visions of what it means to belong to the American family.

One path leads to a Christian nationalist rebranding of America based on the alluring myth of religious and national purity, where Christian and American identities are synonymous, and where Christians are tasked with holding authority over all essential aspects of American civic life.

The other path is a return to America’s pluralistic roots and the endeavor to create a society in which people from diverse religious traditions can freely bring their gifts and aspirations to bear on a shared diverse democracy.

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