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Huckabee’s Second Bapticostal Bid for the GOP Nomination

By Sarah Posner

…d Mitt Romney, who also did, splitting the evangelical vote in states like South Carolina with John McCain, Huckabee was unable to pull out a victory. That led to some regrets and recriminations later, when religious right leaders realized they were stuck with McCain, an evangelically inadequate candidate (until he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate). Huckabee is one candidate who can cleverly navigate different parts of Evangelical-Land, espe…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…es to Hank Williams. Our friends are second-generation American Muslims of South Asian, Arab, and African heritage, white converts, and beautiful toddlers of interracial marriages. Watching them interact, I am content, and hopeful for our future here. My husband and I push the stroller through the neighborhood after our friends leave. The festival is officially over but children are still dancing on a wooden floor as the crew dismantles the stage…

The Drowning of Bin Laden

By Haroon Moghul

…wanted Osama bin Laden; in that there is cause for profound spiritual reflection. There is also, I hope, cause to end any confusion of what he and his followers did with what Muslims want and what Islam teaches. I pray we find in his anonymous burial, in the sea south of Pakistan, that at the end, none of the peoples he claimed to be fighting on behalf of wanted him; more than that, to the few grumbling voices out there, President Obama’s framing—…

Christian Reconstructionist Legislator Slams Tornado Victims for Praying to “Their God FEMA”

By Julie Ingersoll

…t week that, in the aftermath of the deadly tornados that swept across the South, State Representative Bobby Franklin said he was “saddened” as he watched his “fellow Georgians pray to their god FEMA to save them.” Of course the report, as well as the reader comments, came down pretty hard on Franklin for his appalling lack of sensitivity. You may remember Franklin as the state representative who proposed a bill requiring that miscarriage would be…

Mosques and Welcoming LGBT People

By Hussein Rashid

…t generation was fairly ethnocentric, so Arabs would build one mosque, and South Asians another. If populations were large enough, you could get subdivided further, so that there would be a Lebanese mosque, a Syrian mosque, a Pakistani mosque, and an Indian mosque. In the second generation, those types of divides are disappearing, and many centers are becoming multi-ethnic and include African-Americans. To me, that says our next great challenge wi…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…articular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widely reported, “blues” and “grays” came together to rid the hemisphere of the last vestiges of the decayed evil empire of the Spanish. National exultation over the rapid victory (akin to the same national feeling after th…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…nized a rally for Governor Scott’s signing of a controversial state budget today in the massive retirement community known as The Villages. It seemed like a nice day for a drive so I thought I’d head south to attend the rally, talk to some tea partiers and listen to the speeches. Scott, whose public approval ratings are sinking in the polls, had chosen to move the signing from Tallahassee to the tea party stronghold, and in particular, this make-b…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by newly freed blacks in Charleston, South Carolina memorializing dead Union troops. In Joplin, Missouri, residents mourned those lost in the tornado. The Department of Homeland Security has ended a post-9/11 registration program that required Arab and Muslim men to register with the government, but not before tangling many Muslim immigrants up in legal proceedings. The Muslim Brotherhood says they do not want…

Is Huntsman a Dud? Or Just VP Material?

By Joanna Brooks

Mitt Romney can breathe a bit easier today as it looks like his motorcycle-riding doppelganger is off to a very slow start. Despite Huntsman’s flash of media attention over the last few weeks, the most accurate prognosticator in the political game says he has virtually no chance of grabbing the nomination. Number-crunching Nate Silver finds that (in data drawn from six polls) Huntsman has the highest “unacceptability” rating (51%) of almost all c…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…rom humans into pig fetuses.” Although this sounds like something out of a South Park episode in which scientists graft on a you-know-what to the back of a lab mouse so Mrs. Garrison can be a man again, or perhaps reminiscent of H. G. Wells’ Island of Doctor Moreau, this science fiction is fast becoming science. If it proves successful, this technology could dramatically reduce the long waiting lists to receive transplanted organs and tissue, the…