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Prayer Is Political

Zealots at the Gate

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The Power of Community Prayer in a Non-Muslim Space

LZ Granderson: As someone who spends a lot of time in Washington, DC with non-Muslims and in non-Muslim spaces, what is that experience like for you to move into the Friday prayers with your Muslim brothers and sisters? LZ: I wish there was a better way for me to describe it. But it is really, I can remember one time being in a church and we were all asked to stand up and say the Apostles Creed - which is this basic belief system of the Christian faith centuries old. And so we stand shoulder to shoulder, helping one another in the faith. So much of populism in political life emerges out of this sense of being isolated and lonely," she

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