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Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…would give the appearance of a global terrorist operation, even though the central ISIS command did little to plan or conduct them. Is this what happened in Orlando? Thus far, there is no evidence that Omar Mateen has had any connection with ISIS leadership. The ISIS news agency that boasted that he was an “ISIS fighter” did not, however, state that his was an ISIS operation. The agency did not imply that it had been planned and orchestrated by th…

Strange Bedfellows: The American Far-Right and Today’s Jihad Do Have Something in Common — Just Not What You Think

By Suzanne Schneider

…of the universe. If this appeal to individual agency serves as one of the central acts of seduction within the new far-right, it’s important to consider it alongside the widespread civic paralysis that is one of neoliberalism’s most noteworthy social effects. Mary Kaldor, for instance, has described the “individualism and anomie that characterizes the current period” as creating a sort of political vacuum: “the sense that political action is futi…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…nt than their enemies. It’s perhaps a small step forward the Vikings series portrays the violent heathen not as a brown, racialized other, but as a remnant of a European past imagined to be more violent than the present. On the other hand, the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who was among the loudest of those calling for the heads of the wrongly accused teens in the Central Park Jogger case, and who famously called Mexican immigrants rapists,…

Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…ne the Sanctuary of God.” The church gave shelter to thousands fleeing the Central American death squads. In 1986, Fife was one of eight activists convicted on alien-smuggling charges and served five years’ probation. His fellow defendant, Sister Darlene Nicgorski, argued for her First Amendment right to practice her religion, saying, “If I am guilty of anything, I am guilty of the gospel.” Still, some politicians don’t think SB 1070, which is und…

America Does Not Have a Religious Identity

By Dennis J Goldford

…deliberate double meaning of 1) the Constitution as a charter of religious freedom, and 2) the act of constituting religious freedom, and Baylor came up with the clever subtitle, God, Politics, and the First Amendment. I was able to give my concluding chapter the title, “One Nation under Whose God?” How do you feel about the cover? I’m actually quite happy with it. Beyond being aesthetically attractive, it makes a substantive point by nesting the…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…asked him, as we are hearing reports that Tsarnaev brothers spent time in Central Asian states, about what their experience might have been in Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan. Radon’s response echoes what he said about Chechnya: “we have no full picture of what is actually going on in that part of the world, the suffering and poverty many people endure in a number of those states; and we have no understanding of what our foreign policy could unintention…

Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…obert Jeffress, who just a year ago endorsed Rick Perry over Romney in the Republican Primary, and called Mormonism a cult, is now telling pastors in Florida—even though he still thinks Mormonism is a cult—that “It’s time to stand up and push back against all the evil in our country.” He suggested that failing to go out to vote for Romney would be like being a pastor in Germany in the 1930s and failing to try to stop the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Char…

Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s of this writing. National Right to Life? Top headline as of July 3, 3:57 central time was “Supreme Court Decision Means Americans Must Elect Mitt Romney and a Pro-Life Congress Committed to Repealing ObamaCare.” Susan B. Anthony List? Its president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, wrote a column for National Review Online yesterday titled “Pro-Lifers Must Unite Behind Romney.” (The discussion in the comments thread did make its way around to the Stericyc…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…sts began systematically to address the two interlinked questions that are central to any legal system: how to decide between two different arguments concerning a rule; and how to resolve cases that are not explicitly covered by clear rules in the first place. In the years since then, countless thousands of scholars have spent their lives struggling to interpret God’s law (a task known as ijtihad), with prolific results. Islamic jurisprudence go…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…onversation. I’m very glad. Now that you say that, you’re right. Given how central religion is in American life, it is true that it doesn’t get dealt with a lot [in mainstream film]—from either side of the aisle. You were convinced that a movie would be more powerful in representing atheists than any number of books and speakers. You were at the national convention in Iowa. Some of the atheist speakers were pretty good, but you can’t compare any o…