Welcome to Portraits of Hate, Lessons of Hope. This site hopes to bring awareness to the vilification and persecution of religious groups in America and to support justice and fair treatment for all. To this end, the site incorporates different visual media to raise awareness and educate people on the issue of religious intolerance. Only when we educate ourselves and others about the realities of religious intolerance can we dissolve the power of hate and hate groups. We hope this site will be useful to you as a student, citizen, or educator in promoting religious understanding in our country.