Source: The Cougar
Students filed into the Agnes Arnold Auditorium Tuesday for a conversation about countering religious extremism.
The event, part of the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication’s “Big Talk” series, brought together a wide field of industry experts to offer their perspectives on the issues of extremism and immigration.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee opened the conversation by denouncing the proliferation of hate speech and its effects.
“It is clearly important to be able to say that the way we should run this country is not through fear and intimidation and hate,” Lee said. “We will never succeed if that is what is going to be our direction.”
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