Read this engaging piece by Hiba Siddiqi for Religion News, in which she talks about how her high school’s Muslim prayer room was an expression of the religious freedoms Americans value, respect, and fight for, and how the presence of the prayer room in her school served to normalize the Muslim members of the school community. As she explains: “I used to tell people that exposure to a thing results in the normalization of that thing, but I now realize that the only way to transcend lines of difference is through exposure plus education. This happens when prayer spaces are normalized in public school, permitting respectful interfaith dialogue to take place.”
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