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As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger

By Joe Freeman

…tightened ever since the relic vanished. Authorities stationed police and military police at the site, and put more security guards on duty. One of the new arrivals, a uniformed police officer named Kiet Ret, was sitting outside a room full of statues where Cambodians come to pray. “The relic is the most important and valued; we still tighten the security here even though it was stolen, because there are other valuable antiques and statues placed…

On Whistleblowing, MLK, Jr., and the Politics of Resistance in the Digital Age

By Kevin Healey

…ing tech industry is tantamount to sin. In this environment, corporate and military interests have appropriated the democratic potential of digital technologies for the purposes of surveillance. Laws protecting intellectual property and copyright abound, while laws against revenge porn, consumer privacy violations, and illegal surveillance are meager at best. Digital technologies have generated a crisis in the ethics of disclosure—and positioned u…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…egal status as a family, including benefits if a common law partner in the military were killed. The Parliament also voted to include the anti-gay Gražulis in a delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, “one of the countinent’s leading organizations for defending human rights.” United Kingdom: Blaming Gays for Bad Weather Gets Politician Suspended UPI reports, “A British politician from the United Kingdom Independent Party…

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

By Warren Throckmorton

…ding their lands because of savagery and immorality; that gays in the Nazi military were responsible for “six million dead Jews”; that the First Amendment only applies to Christians (which is his basis for preaching that Muslims do not have the right to build mosques). In short, Governor Perry is partnering with an organization that believes that only Christians have the right to freely exercise their religious beliefs. After examining the views o…

What’s Actually in Breivik’s “Declaration of Independence”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ff as his own), but presumably not their permission. The sources include a number of conservative organizations including one of the founding influences in the religious right, and architect of American “Cultural Conservatism:” the Free Congress Foundation. The sources also include well known promoters of Islamophobia Pam Geller and Robert Spencer (each referenced more than 50 times) and Andrew Bostrom (whom I wrote about here, and who is referenc…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…t from the Times’ article: After the missiles were shown destroying Syrian military helicopters, the matter took an unusual turn when a state-controlled newspaper in China, apparently acting on a marketing impulse, lauded the missile’s performance. “The kills are proof that the FN-6 is reliable and user-friendly, because rebel fighters are generally not well trained in operating missile systems,” the newspaper, Global Times, quoted a Chinese aviat…

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

By Sarah Posner

…ere he explains that on 1683 at the Battle of Vienna, the Ottoman Empire’s military was defeated in a protracted struggle, thereby insuring that most of Europe would not become part of the Muslim empire. The date in Breivik’s title is the 400th anniversary of that decisive battle, and in Breivik’s mind he was re-creating the historic efforts to save Europe from what he imagined to be the evils of Islam. (emphasis added). In a 2008 investigation of…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ere he explains that on 1683 at the Battle of Vienna, the Ottoman Empire’s military was defeated in a protracted struggle, thereby insuring that most of Europe would not become part of the Muslim empire. The date in Breivik’s title is the 400th anniversary of that decisive battle, and in Breivik’s mind he was re-creating the historic efforts to save Europe from what he imagined to be the evils of Islam. The threat of Islam is a dominant motif of h…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…an, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and recover from an economic downturn that was driven by a negative and biased media in the first place. And only then, after a national revival and an awakening to self-reliance, will God work his plan to help others—not through our governing institutions, but through our religi…

Obama Muffs Question On Faith-Based Hiring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…evelt’s signing of an executive order prohibiting racial discrimination by military contractors, by finally putting an end to a Bush-era executive order that permits religious organizations receiving federal grants to discriminate in hiring based on religion. Fifty-two civil liberties, faith, and other organizations signed on to CARD’s letter to the president. . . . members of Congress and of CARD plan to call “for President Obama to restore relig…