Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Regional Director Scott L. Levin’s letter to the Editor of the Denver Post takes Mike Rosen to task for his perpetuation of stereotypes and anti-Muslim prejudice in a recent column. Levin writes:

Editor:

Mike Rosen’s column is a blatant provocation in its assertion that it is a “fantasy” for President Obama to claim that Islam is a “religion of peace.” (President George W. Bush said the same thing.) Rosen’s column perpetuates stereotypes and anti-Muslim prejudice. His enmity is evidenced by his dredging up debunked claims that President Obama is Muslim, or as Rosen puts it, that he has made Christianity “his public religion to more easily advance his political ambitions.”

Make no mistake: World leaders should be more forceful in identifying and condemning Islamic extremist movements that are responsible for unspeakable torture, beheadings, bombings and mass murder. However, this is no excuse for Rosen to conflate Islam with Islamic extremists and to promote prejudice against the religion of 1.6 billion people.