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Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin’s and the Patriarch’s. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, “the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete.” Katya, Masha and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated. Just as th…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…one from the ballot, or prohibiting a whole party, are high—but due to the country’s genocidal past and the current surge in right-wing extremism (the AfD is leading the polls in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg), demands to use whatever tools the constitution holds to stop the ascent of fascism have been getting steadily louder. What’s especially interesting, both in the US and Germany, is how demands for removal of Trump or Höcke from the ballo…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…n the survey.” Yet many Israelis still believe, or hope, that a democratic country would be a more stable peace partner than an autocratic one. Despite the fact that Theodore Herzl, the ostensible patriarch of Zionism, was a monarchist and that early Zionism had a strong attachment to Marxism and socialism, Israel has predominantly been dedicated to democracy as the fairest way to govern and views a democratized Middle East as good for Israel in t…

At Moms for Liberty Summit, ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…outside the Marriott Hotel where community organizers passed out water and sunscreen. Inside, Moms for Liberty, who claim to be champions of free speech, used this display of their fellow Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights to paint themselves as victims of the “radical Left” and the “Marxists” who have forced them to endure unjust abuse and vilification (even as they claim that the pushback really is proof that they’re doing the right…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…first to the Muslim world.” He added that Al-Azhar is the “Harvard of the Sunni world” and that “they have put their imprimatur on a book, which is a codification of Sharia across all the various Sunni legal schools.” (There is, as previously explained, no “codification” of shari’ah, and Al-Azhar isn’t considered the “Harvard” of anywhere.) McCarthy, author of the books The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America and How Obama Embrac…

Maddow Confronts Author of Ugandan “Kill the Gays” Bill

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…being told to terrorize and perhaps euthanize an entire minority within a country, the law and opinions of the country pursuing such actions cannot simply be “respected.” This is what Bahati doesn’t understand. He’s proposing a law that has the potential to put many people to death—and even if that clause is removed, as Bahati says he’s open to—it would still sentence many people to life in prison for something that they simply are, not that they…

Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

By Rebecca Todd Peters

…public debate about the relationship between theology and the law in this country. Religious people hold a variety of beliefs about when life begins and what constitutes personhood. Any attempt to pass legislation that imposes one religious group’s narrow theological position on the rest of the country is a breach of religious freedom. Some, like Steven Waldman, argue that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legiti…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…cutting America off from itself. Religions like Islam have existed in this country since the 1600s, coming over with enslaved Africans, while Hinduism and Sikhism have been present here since the 1800s. Moreover, lest we forget, the entire Southwest was once part of Mexico. By idealizing a heteronormative white Christian state, Trump is embracing a view of America that never existed, and is assuring a large swath of the country that it can avoid d…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…stand that police violence, let alone the latent violence expressed in our country’s maintenance of an enormous lethal military force, cannot really be addressed without also addressing the fundamental social organization of a country so thoroughly steeped in the poison of white supremacy. A winner-take-all economy won’t be changed without a power struggle that is, if anything, much more fierce, much more sustained, and (most of all) much more vis…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…anted to go to Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—to recover the loot and take over the country. The Rhodesian government got wind that he was trying to do this, and they blocked him from entering the country. Of course, it didn’t matter because he never spoke about it again after learning that Rhodes was gay. People often say they remember being an important historical figure. I was never famous in any of my past lives—I was many different women though. But y…