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Shannon Dunn, assistant professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University, will be a panelist at the Nov. 1 Coffee Talk, which will focus on "Religion and Politics."

Among the so-called "New" Atheists, few topics have seen so much ink spilled, and so many words spoken, as the supposed threat of Islam. Since 9/11, the religion has become a favorite whipping post for atheist authors, speakers and thinkers to argue the harm that comes with religious belief.

I’ve been horrified by the news and sights of ISIS beheading innocent people for their terrorist reasons, and I’ve been despairing over our western response. All the time I’ve been rereading Karen Armstrong’s Islam: A Short History.

It is wrong to use scripture (ANY scripture) to discriminate against others and it is wrong to declare oneself the victim when one has been caught doing such a thing.

The presenter, a traveling lecturer who has been self-publishing books through Sealing Time Ministries on the topic Biblical references to the rise of Islam in the book of revelations — problems with anachronism and those things called facts aside, it is astounding to me that anyone would take-on reading into the future to look for evidence of boogeymen in sister religions.

Jonathan Cook took us on a tour of the newly finished museum dedicated to Hebron’s Jewish heritage, which focuses on various acts of violence done to Jews there and their triumph over them, which in his narrative, lead to the reality today.