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The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…ted Muslim politics for a very long time. Starting in the 1960s, though, a new Muslim politics began to emerge, shaped by a clash between Cold War overseers, unrepresentative national elites, and persecuted anti-state movements. Initially, many of these movements resisted authoritarian states through explicitly secular discourses, equal parts national pride and socialist policy. The resurgence of Muslimness took two forms: Islamist political movem…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…book six, The Assassins [when] Carpathia is speaking at a mass rally in Jerusalem. Out in the crowd is [underground Christian resistance leader] Rayford Steele, armed with a high-tech handgun. He prays for God’s guidance, and finds himself firing what appears to be a fatal shot at Carpathia. Intentionally or not, this is an eerie rewrite of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination at a Tel Aviv peace rally in 1995—but the authors are…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ussia: Government-Orthodox Church partnership expands power of both In the New York Times, Andrew Higgins explores the Putin government’s aggressive support for the Russian Orthodox Church as a means to extend the power of both Russia and the church around the globe. An excerpt: While tanks and artillery have been Russia’s weapons of choice to project its power into neighboring Ukraine and Georgia, Mr. Putin has also mobilized faith to expand the…

Do iPads Cause Religious Experiences?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ndomly, depending on the history of the city. Burkhard Bilger, in a recent New Yorker profile of neuroscientist David Eagleman, describes this transition in our understanding of how the brain keeps time. During the mid-nineteenth century, the prevailing theory was that there was a single, integrated time-keeper somewhere in the brain—the equivalent of a neurological stop watch. More recent studies, however, suggest a hodgepodge of overlapping syst…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Protecting Infants Born Alive—Laws requiring protection for infants born alive born alive as a result of a botched abortion Prohibiting Partial-Birth Abortion—Laws banning the procedure known as partial-birth abortion Making it a Crime to Cross State Lines To Obtain Abortions for Minors—Transporting a minor across state lines for an abortion without the minor´s parents´ consent should be criminalized Nomination of Pro-Life Supreme Court Justices—…

It’s Bring Back the Holy Bible and Christian Prayer in Schools Month

By Sarah Posner

…that these kinds of ominous warnings of God’s wrath can be very entertaining. Andrew tells visitors to his website to join in Bible Blitz USA, “a fun way to share God’s love and truth.” …

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…esolve to press forward.” The conservative media machine, from Live Action News, to Newsbusters, to Free Republic, ran with Mason’s story of being attacked by violent pro-choice advocates, pushing the narrative that violent assaults against pro-life Americans are on the rise. The Daily Beast reacted on the day of the press release by publishing its third story on the Masons in the space of a week, complete with the same home vandalism photos the a…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…rning the scene depicted? Or perhaps it was something in between? *** In a New Yorker essay after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Teju Cole invoked Menocchio, the 16th century miller who is the hero of Carlo Ginzburg’s groundbreaking micro-history, The Cheese and the Worms. Cole uses Menocchio to show that intolerance, iconoclastic intolerance, is definitional to the formation of The West; the anecdote serves to show that this intolerance has always b…

Soy Story: Atrocious ‘Reporting’ on Insular Religious Groups

By Eli Federman and James Moxness

…suffer. While cable news outlets sometimes air nonsensical speculation or rumor-as-news, as was the case with the Boston Bombing, there’s a glaring failure of journalistic integrity when it comes to reporting on obscure religious groups. It’s tempting to believe that insular religious societies are treated by some as a “free pass” from engaging in good journalism. And the line between news, documentary, docudrama, and entertainment is frequently…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…ssed its $30,000 goal this week. The film, Golf Alpha Yankee, described by New York filmmaker Rick Flynn as an LGBT Human Rights documentary, has received pledges topping $42,000. An Advocate article published three days before the deadline has more details: Filmmaker Rick Flynn bills Golf Alpha Yankee, which spells “gay” in military call letters, as the first film of its kind to document human rights atrocities committed against LGBT Iranians by…