"Over the last year, every single country that I went to, without exception, where I would talk about how essential religious tolerance, religious respect, religious pluralism, religious freedom were, it was, 'What about your country and what's being said about Muslims?' " said Rabbi David Saperstein,  "Every single country … it was, 'We thought you were different.' "

We are different.   Is the U.S. hostile to Muslim religious freedom because we forbid burkhas and female circumcision?

"Different."  As if the U.S. could be equated with the persecutions by Muslims, going on in Africa and the Middle East, and in Asia.   

Some of these progressive articles are so strange, so out there...