Professor Bennoune Publishes Op-ed in Huffington Post

Professor Karima Bennoune published an op-ed in the Huffington Post on the recent hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, in which Islamist extremists killed two captives.

"In the wake of this most recent tragedy in Australia, I hope good sense will prevail," writes Bennoune. "Muslims and refugees generally should not be held responsible for attacks which most of them deplore. That is entirely unacceptable. However, those who rise to defend Muslims and refugees must also unequivocally denounce not only terror, but the Islamist ideology that nourishes it."

Karima Bennoune is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. She recently was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, now available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company.

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