Rough news out of Elmhurst College in the suburbs of Chicago: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1214233,101008attack.article
A Muslim student was assaulted a week after some anti-Muslim graffiti was found on campus. I've spent a lot of time at Elmhurst. I like their programs. They've got some very committed interfaith-workers there. Sad that stuff like this would happen there. All the more reason to keep doing what we're doing.
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Glad you beat me to posting--heard about it from Cassie late last night...
So incredibly scary--just more evidence that stuff like this can happen anywhere now.
I was glad to see (or at least it appeared that this was the case from the article) that a number of student groups were standing up and denouncing the attacks, including an LGTBIQ equality group--if this whole interfaith thing is going to work, it can't just be interfaith organizations and related parties doing the advocacy, it has to be everyone who is interested in human rights and equality issues.
Agreed, Tucker. This kind of thing, especially on a college campus, affects all students.
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