It's important to establish the personalities of the anti-Muslim fringe, but journalists would also benefit from knowing who the "reasonable" critics of Islamism are.
Free travel, lodging and tuition is being offered to reporters to attend the Covering Islam in the Bible Belt seminar in Nashville, put on by the MTSU School of Journalism.
The Media Project sat down recently for an extended interview with one of the United States' leading experts on the issue of international religious freedom.