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How Israeli Military Intelligence Cooks the Books

By Richard Silverstein

…litical line as a total fraud. Here Eldar relates Sharon’s 2005 unilateral policy in Gaza to Camp David: According to Lavie, the conception that left room solely for unilateral moves and a policy of brute force did not originate with Sharon. Since the failure of the Camp David summit in July 2000, when Ehud Barak adopted the “no partner” theory, the research unit, then under Amos Gilad, supported describing Israel’s response to the intifada as a “…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…erim national coordinating secretary Makhumbo Munthali. Recently President Peter Mutharika said the problems facing the country are signs of “moral degradation in our society” and that Malawians are “far away from God’s Commandments.” Romania: Court again delays ruling on marriage recognition request The Constitutional Court was scheduled to rule last Tuesday on a petition asking the government to recognize the marriage in Belgium of a Romanian ma…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…to take place only among a married man and woman.” Smuggling religion into policy Dr. David R. Brockman, a Nonresident Scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told RD he sees Project Blitz “as a covert campaign for conservative Christian dominion over law and public policy.” “As I’ve written elsewhere,” he added, “dominionism as I understand it seeks to align law and public policy with conservative Christian beliefs.” Part…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ding, then patrolling, what is available on Google-owned YouTube. Google’s policy is to remove content only if it is hate speech, which violates its terms of service, or in response to valid court orders or government requests. After determining at first that, under its own guidelines, the offensive video was not hate speech, Google eventually announced that, “given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we have temporarily restricted acc…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…ast (see this and this, and consider Dr. Ahmed Farouq who was kicked off a flight because his praying looked “suspicious.”) So I pray a physically (and spiritually) truncated prayer. There are allowances within the Prophetic tradition for alternative physical motions: the Prophet prayed while riding a camel, and while doing so, in lieu of bowing and prostration, bent his head down symbolically; a person who is extremely sick and immobile may even…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…llinois. After 25-year-old Georgine Lyon ended her engagement with Charles Petrach, Petrach shot and killed Lyon in a classroom at Lawrenceville High School where she worked as a librarian. • November 20, 1952, New York City, New York. “Rear Admiral E. E. Herrmann, 56 years old, superintendent of the Naval Post-Graduate School, was found dead in his office with a bullet in his head. A service revolver was found by his side. • October 2, 1953, Chic…

Double Helix: Who’s Your Daddy?

By Arri Eisen

As I age, I have more and more of those eerie moments when I look in the mirror or from above at myself talking and see and hear my dad. But is he really my dad? Recently one of my students said, “I’m adopted, and I’ve come to that point in my life when I want to find out who I really am. So I’ve started to look for my natural parents.” Who are we, really? Our religious and cultural messages say we are defined in large part by who our parents, es…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…for myself, my family, and colleagues. So I’ve been trying to draft a short 800-word article for Religion Dispatches, as my attempt to make sense of this current moment, not because I chose this as an anthropological project, but here I am. Here I am listening to Trump’s transition team drop words like Muslim registry or that there is a precedent for internment camps in American history. The news that the KKK has been dropping their newsletter off…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

While sanctimonious conservatives and godless liberals alike await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, two more suits with serious church and state implications are quietly making their way through the system. The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) is a group of “atheists, agnostics and skeptics” with a Scientology-esque fondness for litigation. Recently the FFRF has gone after the so-called “parsonage exemption,” which allow…

“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

…overnment action. What is most bothersome to me about the Big Con being perpetrated today is the absolutely supine and credulous “reporting” of the whole affair in the corporate media. Only a tiny number of outlier critics—like Simon Johnson—are given any air time at all. Everybody else, from NPR to Fox News, goes right along with the cute “stress test” metaphor, forgetting that the so-called patient being “tested” is actually an 800-pound gorilla…