Stephen Howard

Audience participant who identified himself in a public Q&A as a lay person working in international affairs and asked Asma Uddin about Muslim Americans’ political alignments and receptiveness within the U.S. conservative movement. No reliable public evidence was found establishing him as a public leader beyond that appearance.

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