Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Library as a "House of Ideas"


"Our very best" was a two-part lecture  presented at the Rancho Mirage Public Library by Penny Rivin on the topic of "Islam: What It Is and What It Isn't".

News of this program brought the wackos out of the woodwork.  The library received numerous angry phone calls from across the U.S. -- as Bryant describes them -- from nasty corner[s] of thinking where ignorance trumps facts, where a word, “Islam,” sets off a prairie fire that creates a twisted version of reality.

Unfortunately, I suspect some folks out there are updating their phone lists.


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