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Government-Sanctioned Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ering civil liberties advocates who have been pressing him for well over a year to implement a policy change. World Relief received over $14 million in federal funding in FY 2009, from the U.S. Agency for International Development, State Department, and Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to its recent announcement of enforcement of its hiring and retention policy, World Relief has come under fire for refusing to hire a Muslim int…

‘Id Mubarak and Many Happy Returns!

By Amina Wadud

…returns.” The reply is, wa antum bis-sihah was-Salaam, which is “may every year (find you) with health and peace.” I think in the United States, we take ours from South Asia and just say ‘Id Mubarak, “blessed ‘Id,” with the response, ‘Id Karim, “noble or generous ‘Id.” And everywhere there is food. So much food you can see why such a rigorous fast does not produce the world’s thinnest people: they’d eat it all back during the three-day celebration…

The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”

By Jerry Faught

…order to preserve church unity. The real reason Lifeway refuses to stock A Year of Biblical Womanhood is because Lifeway is committed to upholding the fundamentalist beliefs and practices embraced by a constituency more program-oriented than theologically sophisticated. Fundamentalism is inherently andocentric and Rachel Evans’ egalitarianism threatens the insecurity of SBC male sexists who try to veil their misogyny by using the softer word “comp…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…martyrdom, Abdulmutallab received four consecutive life sentences plus 50 years. He also earned the less-than-terrifying nickname of “underwear bomber.” At first glance, Abdulmutallab’s story fits the conventional narrative about suicide bombers: devoutness, then radicalization, and finally the culminating al-Qaeda training camp. Indeed, at his sentencing last year, Abdulmutallab’s address to the court can be read as a string of jihadic clichés….

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…urok Enterprises, causing a fire that injured 13 employees and killed a 27-year-old employee, Iris Kones, from smoke inhalation. Hurok was an impresario who often booked Russian acts to perform in America. The bombing, widely believed to be the work of the JDL, resulted in many of those who disagreed with Kahane, but who defended his right to speak, distancing themselves from Kahane and the JDL. It was in many ways, his “Waterloo.” But he still re…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…gin of Species would also challenge religious notions, not only of a 6,000-year-old world and a literal acceptance of Genesis, but about ideas of human exceptionalism. Even though Darwin never raised the issue of human evolution in Origin (that would come 12 years later in his Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex), the underlying point was not lost on the public. If man evolved from apes, how could we have been made in God’s image? Evol…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…not Muslim enough’. The Advocate’s Nico Lang wrote about T. Nhaveen, an 18-year old beaten to death by his classmates “because he was deemed insufficiently masculine.” Little is known about the deceased’s sexuality, but his death speaks volumes about the stigma of being perceived to be gay — or even a little bit feminine — in a country where homosexuality is effectively illegal. Anti-LGBT tensions have been rising in Malaysia in recent years as it…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…me up during a report on the pupil progression plan for the 2010-11 school year, delivered by Jan Benton, director of curriculum. Benton said that under provisions of the Science Education Act enacted last year by the Louisiana Legislature, schools can present what she termed “critical thinking and creationism” in science classes. Board Member David Tate quickly responded: “We let them teach evolution to our children, but I think all of us sitting…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

…et inconvenient data stand in the way of wishful thinking. And that’s why, year after year, we get stories like this: Hip New Churches Sway to a Different Drummer (2004) Evangelicals Open Debate on Widening Policy Questions (2005) Are Young Evangelicals Skewing More Liberal? (2008) It’s Not Your Father’s Christian Right (2008) Young Evangelicals Seek Broader Political Agenda (2008) The Evangelical Divide (2017) ‘God is Going to Have to Forgive Me’…

Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous

By Joseph Laycock

…with a teenage girl who ran away in order to elope with him. The mother of 16-year-old Paige Marie Brewer has stated that Sharkey “brainwashed” her daughter, though Sharkey claimed he was rescuing her from an abusive home and even sent a letter to Minnesota Child Protective Services describing Paige’s alleged abuse. Eventually, Paige was taken from Sharkey and into police custody. However, in March when Sharkey appeared in Tampa, Florida, to anno…