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Radicalization Not Linked to Religion

By Julie Ingersoll

…identify a Muslim “extremist” during a car check, a pedestrian check, or a business or residence check. Despite near-unanimity about the difficulty of identifying signs of radicalization, it seems a Kansas City cop would be able to do so in the course of a writing a ticket. According to the Brennan Center study, 40% of the terror plots that have been thwarted by law enforcement have been discovered, at least in part, thanks to tips from Muslims. Y…

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…ing living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” As a small business owner, Rodgers does not share this mistrust of capitalism. However, he did agree that there is a systematic problem in American financial institutions: “When problems arise, as they inevitably do in our imperfect world, nobody takes responsibility; nobody is at fault.” He added, “It makes me sad to say this, but I wish more people would learn how to sue in small c…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…religious institutions from engaging in partisan political activity. Now, Americans United is asking the IRS to investigate. I’m not sure why anyone would toy with the IRS. A group of disabled Syrians and Americans have come up with a new comic book hero; a disabled Muslim boy in a wheel chair who transforms into the Silver Scorpion. Senators Arlen Specter and Brad Sherman have introduced a bill that would amend Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…in Islam or the Qur’an. Federer, who has a bachelor’s degree in accounting/business administration from Saint Louis University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from American Christian College, also calls himself a “best-selling author,” though the books available for sale consisted exclusively of self-published materials (indeed Federer’s own company, Amerisearch, published What Every American Needs To Know About the Qur’an, the book on whi…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…e Smoot trials and the King hearings as well. Kathleen Flake, professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University and author of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle, writes that unlike the King hearings: The Smoot hearings had some basis in fact: the LDS Church was breaking the law against polygamy. The merits of that law, of course, are questionable, but there’s no question th…

Scott Walker’s Faith-Based Anti-Government Rhetoric

By Lauri Lebo

…oing to take you home both here at home and ultimately far beyond.” Fourteen months later, at his inaugural prayer breakfast, Walker said, “The Great Creator, no matter who you worship, is the one from which our freedoms are derived, not the government.” In a lunch talk to the Christian Business Men’s Committee in 2009, he spoke of his learning the meaning of the hymn Trust and Obey. While he says his obedience doesn’t relate necessarily to politi…

Identifying With God: Jay-Z’s Power to Profit

By Ebony Utley

…of Russell Simmons but doing it bigger and deffer, Jay-Z is the consummate businessman. In fact, he’s a business, man. Jay-Z credits his success to his hustler mentality, but he doesn’t stop there… His Blueprint albums reference his power of creation—the divine ability to manifest something out of nothing as God did when he spoke the world into existence. He describes himself as hip hop’s savior on his return-from-retirement album Kingdom Come, wh…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…enter’s and the WCF’s efforts to end what the Center calls the “assault on American fertility,” as as well as around the world: The WCF followed the rise of a global conservative movement in response to international conferences in the 1990s, particularly concerning reproductive or women’s rights, which they feared could affect US law back home. At the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, Pope John Paul II (an early bridge-builder…

Did Jackie Speier Shatter “Common Ground”?

By Sarah Posner

…which as we know bankrolls Planned Parenthood’s lucrative sex trafficking business — which is what you would believe if you listened to the right-wingers like Chris Smith (R-NJ)). But I digress. The real issue with Ryan-DeLauro, which I wrote about here in 2009, is that it sought a religious imprimatur for what Planned Parenthood and other providers of and advocates for women’s reproductive health services have done for years: make it possible fo…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…different ways. In anti-government Tahrir Square, I saw a sign instructing Americans to stay out of Egypt’s business – while I heard pro-government supporters (peacefully queuing along with everyone else to get into Tahrir) claiming that foreign agents were in the middle of all this. Not that this translated into any sort of unsafe environment for foreigners in Tahrir itself. Tahrir, despite being the scene of a protest bereft of state authority,…