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Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…ge: 2000, when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. So: “If the City of New York denies the zoning approval sought for this site, it will blatantly violate [the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act] and expose the city to one whopping lawsuit that is extremely likely to succeed,” as Chicago attorney Dan Lauber told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet. “A federal law adopted by a Republican Congress makes the denial th…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…e featuring three crosses. A Hindu woman in Illinois has been fighting the City of Evanston over the chopping down of a tree next to her property. The woman’s belief in ahimsa, or nonviolence, prevented her from having anything to do with the felling of the living tree for “no reason.” The woman has spent less than $15,000, while the city has spent close to $40,000, in the battle over the $635.02 tax bill. In Massachusetts, a town sent a tax bill…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ove rhetoric. The disbelief and outrage that African Americans had the audacity to believe in a Supreme Being that would punish America for its treatment of Black people seemed implausible—or worse, “hate speech.” To be Black however means that long-suffering and forgiveness are the only acceptable modes of religious response, as witnessed in the aftermath of the Mother Emmanuel shootings in 2015. The dominant narrative has focused on the survivin…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…me personally, I chose to wear the niqab way back in the mid-1970s in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. I was strongly influenced by a few things. Once I had accepted to practice Islam, I became very ambivalent about my relationship to all things not Islamic, especially those which I had once been a part of. I wanted a partition between myself and the rest of the world. All of it. It’s like taking literally the spiritual implication of th…

Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

…blowing shofars as they encircled the Capitol, imitating the siege of the city of Jericho by the Israelites described in the book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible. One video depicted the Christian flag—white with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton, officially adopted by the Federal Council of Churches in 1942—being paraded into the congressional chamber through breached doors just minutes after members of Congress had been evacuated through unde…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…heights in 1992, initiating the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. The city’s residents were reduced to fish in a barrel, up against the former Yugoslavian military, the fourth largest land force in the world, dominated by Serbs and designed to defend the former Yugoslavia from a possible Soviet invasion. The Bosniaks barely had an army. They were under an arms embargo. Something on the order of 5-10% of their population was killed….

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…nie Lobert, who participated in a panel discussion on “Saving Souls in Sin City: The Secret Life of Ministry in the Party City” at last September’s Religion News Association Conference in Las Vegas. According to Lynch’s report, Lobert’s previous grant funding “was not renewed in 2018 after the state obtained Hookers for Jesus program manuals saying it was ‘mandatory’ for guests of the group’s shelter, Destiny House, to attend services and voluntee…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…he deciding factors was Truman’s sincere belief in the accuracy and historicity of biblical narrative and prophecy. In 1953, only a year after he left the presidency, Truman affirmed explicitly his biblical understanding of the United States’ recognition of Israel. In a conversation at New York City’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism, Truman was introduced as “the man who helped create the State of Israel….

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…Them,” Truthout, March 14, 2021, https://truthout.org/articles/conspiracy-theories-are-killing-us-and-trumps-departure-hasnt-ended-them/. 6 David Neiwert, talk at Powell’s City of Books, November 5, 2017. 7 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (New York City: Columbia University Press), 2011. …

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…l forces, is very close to an active call for violence. Another, from Iowa City, Iowa, writes, “As Archbishop Vigano has confirmed, this crusade by the Canadian Truckers is the spearhead of God on earth to bring down the Deep State evil. The truckers are St Michael incarnate. Strength and Honor,” likewise straddling the line between spiritual and physical warfare. But another, who didn’t mention him by name, went straight into Vigano’s Klaus Schwa…