Dwayne Royster

Bishop Dwayne Royster is the executive director of Faith in Action, a national faith-based grassroots organizing network. He is a community organizer, religious leader, and political strategist whose work focuses on racial and economic justice, multifaith organizing, democracy, and opposition to white Christian nationalism.

Anti-Muslim Politics Is Testing the Limits of Religious Liberty

Anti-Muslim politics in the US and UK works by recasting Islam not as a religion but as an ideology, racial threat or civilizational enemy, according to legal scholar Asma Uddin, journalist Hannah Allam and British commentator Fraser Nelson. Uddin argues that this move can push Muslims outside religious-liberty protections; Nelson sees it as a revival of sectarian tribalism dressed in Christian language; and Allam warns that journalism and national-security policy have helped make Muslims a suspect category whose logic now extends to others.

The Aspen InstituteMay 12, 202623 min read