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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…ders pigs to be unfit for consumption (haram) and, like Judaism, it has no official ruling on xenotransplantation. While fatwas are generally derived from the Qur’an and Hadith, in the absence of both explicit and implicit rulings, scholars resort to Qiyas or jurisprudential deductive analogy to come to a reasonable conclusion on issues not found in the sacred texts. A.R. Chao, a former Imam in Texas and graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School, su…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…tion and author of Dominion!: How Kingdom Action Can Change the World. His official bio says “In the 2000s, he began to move strongly in promoting the Dominion Mandate for social transformation, adopting the template of the Seven Mountains or the 7-M Mandate for practical implementation.” Wagner was an endorser of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer-rally-cum-presidential launch and dozens of members of the New Apostolic Reformation were involved i…

United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme

By Austin Dacey

…tters as treason, defamation of heads of state, “memory laws” enforcing an official version of history, and the rights of bloggers, Comment 34 comes down strongly against religious limitations on speech. It does so not only by asserting that the right to free speech is foundational to a free and democratic society as well as to the protection and promotion of other rights. It also appeals explicitly to the values of freedom of conscience and equal…

Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion

By Warren Throckmorton

…impulse. In Adams’ day, critics were “alarmed and alienated,” fearing the official favor of one religious dogma over others. In the present day, critics are calling the event divisive since the event is endorsed and funded by groups that have made headlines for maligning other social and religious groups. Given the narrow sliver of Christianity represented by the organizers, it appears the critics have a point. Another governor from Texas liked t…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…ment has fixed the media glitch we noticed here more than a month ago: the official Huntsman campaign website still does not show up in the first page of Google results from a “Huntsman president 2012” search. (Search engine optimization, people! Seriously!) Finally, I’m wondering if Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican moderate who has made a career by strategically blending in, will adapt to this “aggressive” “contrast” business. Sad to say it, but I’…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…ase of Ghaffar Khan’s movement there was the participation of a surprising number of women, given how conservative—and you can even argue misogynist—Pashtun society had been traditionally. They allowed women to participate because he said so and his honor and stature was such that they couldn’t resist. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, women used to lead their marches! This is just incredible. What power and influence he must have had to convince them…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…s for the deportation of Muslims. Indeed several Democratic governors have offered the excuse that they have hosted or are planning their own days of prayer (Minnesota’s Mark Dayton, New Hampshire’s John Lynch, and Washington’s Christin Gregoire), because official praying events now appear to be a prerequisite for high office. Still, though, Perry’s very short gubernatorial guest list is a sign of his event’s, uh, shall we say politely, problemati…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…cDonald’s slated to open later this month, billboards for which seem to outnumber actual Sarajevans: there’s investment here. And there’s the strong potential for tourism, seeing as the country, overrun by war, is outstandingly pristine. Many Bosnians drink straight from the rivers around them. Bosnia’s nature, ecological but also cultural, might be its saving strength. Bosnia seems both in Europe and somehow long ago secluded from it; it has step…

Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…racticed by a tiny fraction of nineteenth-century Utah Mormons, 2 to 5%, a number that Riess notes is an “error.” At least 20-30% of Mormons—mostly from the “elite” segments of Mormon society—practiced plural marriage in the late nineteenth century. Offshoot Mormon polygamous groups in Utah are looking to the Brown case to bring dignity to their families after decades of living more or less “on the underground” and relief from state harassment….