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Muslim characters are either terrorists or “good” Muslims trying to overcome “bad” Muslim plots. In either case, they “are still constrained by conflictual framing,” typically around themes such as terrorism, post-9/11 politics or overseas military intervention.

Just 13 minutes into his lecture on Islam and Christianity last month in the Herak Club at Gonzaga University, the Rev. Patrick Baraza posed a difficult question to the members of his audience: “What stereotypes of the Muslim world do Westerners have?” he asked.

As a non-believer and secularist who thinks that blasphemy laws are intrinsically, universally abhorrent and that individual conscience to be free to believe without coercion or pressure is at the very core of what it means to be a freethinker, I was happy to see the largely college-student audience attending Ahmed’s talk popularly rejecting the Islamophobia that was his subject.

The banners proclaim it in large, red letters: “Honor God — say no to anti-Muslim bigotry.”

Part of Islamic theology is the idea that everyone is welcome to come to mosque.

Because of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, in combination with the over-the-top rhetoric of Donald Trump and other GOP candidates in the presidential primary campaign, Muslims in the United States have been having a pretty rough time of it lately.