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Obama To Skip Golden Temple: Part of A Larger Problem With Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…f Muslims in the world. Nikki Haley, Republican gubernatorial candidate in South Carolina, is now a Christian but of Sikh descent and still goes to temple with her family. Although she is referred to as a “raghead” by other Republicans, she is very comfortable in denouncing the characterization, without insulting other religions. Of course, the idea of wearing religious covering as a sign of respect is not new for politicians: both Laura Bush and…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…eproof in the video; for the roots of that film, read Julie’s feature, out today, on a Christian dominionist film festival, where that film won an award.) Don Wildmon, then the president of the American Family Association, was one of the only religious right leaders to offer an early endorsement of Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign, back when Huckabee was complaining about the others much like he is complaining about Rove now. Huckabee earned…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…anarchists, hate war protestors, hate government, hate the North, hate the South, hate the gays…. Aside from the raw political value of hate, think of the potential for media exposure when you are a religious hater. When the Dalai Lama comes to town (to start with a counter-example) with monks, cultural activities, and lectures, the fundamental core of his teaching—compassion—is a media buzzkill. Even with Richard Gere in tow, his visits are mostl…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…ry high probability of approval in the House next year, with Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) promising to sponsor it in the Senate. Lamborn’s bill in the lame-duck Congress received unanimous Republican support, and also drew three Democratic votes. The vote calculus will change, of course, in January. The possibility of innovative programming at NPR could do so, as well. Lamborn has justified his efforts with the usual deficit-cutting rhetoric. The…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

The day after I ended my ihram, I headed to Makkah with a South Asian family: a woman nearly my age, her two brothers, and her nephew. She and I had shared a mat at Muzdhalifah. Also, the time I led the salah for a jama’at in our Mina tent she had come to tell me how much she liked that salah jamaat. NO transportation was provided by our tour group for these possible trips to Mina Makkah for people to perform the tawaf ifadah. That is tawaf plus…

Santa Executed by Repent Amarillo

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t sense of the word – meaning the whole thing is a travesty. Living in the South I regularly encounter “non-violent” gun-toting Christians who believe Jesus would have packed heat if he could have, forgetting that Jesus truly abhorred violence, even when the disciples were defending him against arrest. In the rest of the video, some good points are actually made as viewers are encouraged to “do unto the least of these” as a gift to Jesus Christ th…

Are You Rapture Ready?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…predicted on a van parked in a shopping center parking lot near Columbia, South Carolina months ago, so I suppose I’m already behind in my preparations. I count myself among the scoffers of second coming date-setting since Jesus himself said we won’t know the date or the time of his return. Evans is prepared with his answer to me and others who laugh off their efforts: “Sadly, only eight people survived the flood in Noah’s time,” he said. “The nu…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…of Islam.” The Chaplain for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers is asking fans to forgive star LeBron James for taking his talents to South Beach and the Miami Heat….

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…thern Canada and moving towards Russia at 40 miles per year. (The magnetic south pole is also moving in Antarctica.) So unless one wants to move Mecca at a similar speed, it may have a hard time keeping whatever alignment Youssef al-Qaradawy is talking about. The urge on the part of some to show Mecca’s specialness in a scientific idiom has nothing to do with actual science. There is a whole genre in the Muslim world of claims that modern science…

Condoms and Common Sense

By Frances Kissling

…other sexually transmitted infections than is an exclusive focus on condom promotion. Regrettably, however, many scientists, HIV prevention educators, and AIDS activists are so fixed on condom promotion that they do not give due attention to the risk avoidance that is possible to achieve through abstinence outside marriage and mutual, lifelong fidelity within marriage.” Who, one asks, are these scientists who believe in the “exclusive focus on con…