In the first part of this piece, I recounted how I was first introduced to Islam in a “freshman seminar” course that purported to be teaching us how to participate in discussions and hone our skills in researching and writing. The topic was music in two religious traditions – Islam and Christianity. For the first […]
Islamic Indoctrination 101
In the late 1990s, I was beginning the second semester of my freshman year at a small liberal arts college in Virginia. At this particular school, all first-year students were required to take a “freshman seminar.” This was a smaller class than the introductory “survey” classes that students typically took before declaring a major. Graded […]