Opinion: The legacy of Japanese-American Buddhists shows that preserving religious freedom is an enduring but doable task, writes Duncan Ryūken Williams
Today most Americans think of Buddhism as either benign or cool. But not long ago the federal government deemed the religion an un-American threat to national security.
As the smoke of Japanese bombs on Pearl Harbor cleared, FBI agents fanned out across the nation to detain “dangerous threats” to the U.S. The first person arrested? The head priest of the Buddhist Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, Gikyo Kuchiba, who was detained 30 minutes before Gov. Joseph Poindexter put the territory under martial law.
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