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Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and progressive believers keep hearing the same thing: that isn't really religion
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Whose Belief Counts as Religion
Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and progressive believers keep hearing the same thing: that isn't really religion
 • Asma Uddin
“Rededicate 250” and the Constitutional Limits of Religious Expression
When religious expression meets political power, the constitutional line gets harder to see
 • Asma Uddin
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Is Islam an American Religion?
The First Amendment was written for everyone.
 • Asma Uddin
The Question the Supreme Court Won’t Answer
The Court took the case. It refused the question. Here is why that matters.
 • Asma Uddin
The Last Private Place Is Your Mind. That’s Starting to Change
You don’t have to ban speech if you can read minds
 • Asma Uddin
Can the Government Encourage Prayer?
Where the First Amendment draws the line between religion and the state
 • Asma Uddin
Once Framed as ‘Free Speech,' Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban Was Destined to Fall
The Supreme Court majority concluded there is no separate category of ‘professional speech’ that receives less constitutional protection
 • Asma Uddin
Is Islam a Religion Under the Law?
Texas courts may reshape how religious freedom protections are applied.
 • Asma Uddin
Does the Constitution Still Matter Today?
How rights depend on what we think happened
 • Asma Uddin
When Does Dissent Become a Threat?
The line between protest and punishment is at the heart of free speech law.
 • Asma Uddin
Is Conversion Therapy a Religious Right—or a Speech Right?
Courts are moving away from religion and toward speech—and that shift has big consequences.
 • Asma Uddin
Reading January 6 Through the First Amendment
The day words turned into action
 • Asma Uddin

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How constitutional doctrine shapes who belongs in America. By a First Amendment scholar and author of When Islam Is Not a Religion.
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