Imagine a world in which every student attending a secondary and post-secondary institution across the United States was instilled with a basic understanding of the world's great religions.
In just under seven minutes on AC360, Rev. Benham managed to deeply offend, disgrace and degrade the religion of Islam and all its 1.4 billion adherents -- many millions of whom live here in the United States, and of whom I am one.
Gingrich's comments are so despicable that it may be the only thing moderate Muslims and al-Qaeda extremists agree upon, and that's a divide we must continue to carve rather than bridge.
Conservative Republicans peddling into the hands of al-Qaeda are also creating false dichotomies that force division, catering to the growing prejudice of Americans towards Muslims and Islam.
