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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Melani McAlister: "Islam is Going to Have a Real Role" | PBS

Duration: 05:52
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1425

As Mideast turmoil spreads, a professor of international affairs says we are witnessing changing interpretations of religion and "a struggle over which interpretations have authority over whom."

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Post Date: February 24, 2011