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The Fallout From “Spinning Ft. Hood”

The Editors.

A letter to the editor and a response. 

Words Matter: The Linguistic Damage of “Going Muslim”

Daniel Martin Varisco.

The etymological ethnic bias of the phrase “going Muslim,” used to refer to the massacre at Fort Hood, is as damaging as it is inaccurate.  

Are Muslims Really Given a Pass By “Elite Opinion Makers”?

Dan Mathewson.

A letter to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg from a scholar of religious extremism.

Spinning Ft. Hood

Hussein Rashid.

RD associate editor Hussein Rashid scrutinizes a cross-section of reactions to the Ft. Hood massacre, from those eager to blame Islam to a number of Muslim-Americans.