Edina Lekovic is the Director of Policy and Programming of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

M. Zuhdi Jasser is founder and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which promotes separation of mosque and state. He has said that “unusual accommodations” for one faith is not pluralism. AIFD is based in Phoenix, Ariz.

Read an Aug. 18, 2011, Patch.com article about students balancing school and their religion.

Read an Aug. 31, 2010, story from The National about celebrating Ramadan in public schools.

The Islamic information website Sound Vision posts a page describing six steps to getting religious accommodation in the public schools.

Read a July 21, 2006, Associated Press story posted by USA Today about public schools juggling the holidays of various religions, including Islam.

Wesley A. Kort is a religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who wrote C.S. Lewis: Then and Now (Oxford University Press, 2001).

David C. Downing is the R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pa., and the author of four books on C.S. Lewis, including Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis & the Narnia Chronicles (Jossey Bass, 2005) and Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis (Intervarsity Press, 2005).

Peter J. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College who specializes in Lewis and has written frequently about him. Kreeft’s books include C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium (Ignatius Press, 1994).