No U.S. Burkini Bans, But Work yet to Do

Meanwhile, many Americans continue to discriminate not only against the public expression of Islam but also against what have traditionally been its private preserves. In the liberal Democratic stronghold of Massachusetts, just down the road from my office in Boston University, the good residents of Dudley have prevented the conversion of a dilapidated farm into an Islamic cemetery, on the dubious theory that Muslim bodies pose a unique threat to public health. Meanwhile, the standard-bearer of America’s other leading political party has famously called for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the USA.