(Photo illustration) The aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks casts a long shadow.

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• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg declined to invite any clergy members to the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks — some say to avoid the issue of including a Muslim representative.

• Proposed mosque projects across America, including an Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan, have polarized opinions and drawn protests.

• Norwegian terrorism suspect Anders Behring Breivik has become the latest, infamous proponent of the theory of the “clash of civilizations.”

The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are a decade in the past, but reaction against the religion of the perpetrators is still very much in the present. How can America’s long-standing values of religious liberty and pluralism survive in such an atmosphere?

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Bruce T. Murray is the author of Religious Liberty in America: The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.