Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons is vice president of programs and strategy at Interfaith Alliance, where he leads advocacy campaigns and movement-building work focused on democracy, religious freedom, and countering Christian nationalism. He is also an MS NOW columnist, a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and author of Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity.

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