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Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [For a survey of these and other Islam-related elect…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…John 10:10). He had the courage to tell the naked truth about it while the New York Times lied about it for nearly the whole 20th century.” Noebel’s reissue of the Schwarz book, titled You Can Still Trust the Communists to Be Communists (Socialists and Progressives Too), pays homage to Skousen as well, noting that in 1958 he compiled a list of 45 “current communist goals,” six of which, Noebel writes, have already been fulfilled: to present homose…

#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”

By Shaina Hammerman

…ss.’” As a white, Jewish woman in liberal San Francisco, there is a chasm between my experiences of privilege and the discrimination felt by Muslim Frenchwomen and black Americans. This is why The New York Times was right to share the actual words of Muslim women. But Valls, so enchanted by “republican principles,” is unable to hear their words and believe them….

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…active Mormons and gay Mormons long estranged from the faith community. In New York City, 50 gay Mormons and allies marched behind the banner of Affirmation, the nation’s oldest Mormon LGBT group. Some held signs quoting a verse from the Book of Mormon: “All are alike unto God.” Nineteen LDS marchers held the Affirmation banner in Houston, as did an estimated 100 LDS LGBT and allied marchers in Santiago de Chile. The largest contingent of the week…

Shari’ah Creeps into Outer Space

By Hussein Rashid

Islam is back in the news, but this time in a good way. New York City is finally hosting the “1001 Inventions” exhibit. The film is narrated by crypto-Muslim–Jew Ben Kingsley, who is a Quaker famous for playing a Hindu, influenced by Jainism. I don’t think they could have chosen a better voiceover. A Malaysian woman, Dr. Mazlan Othman, was in the news for speculation that she would become the official UN Ambassador to Extraterrestrial Life. Altho…

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…agents for preventing his “passage from the lands of the polytheists.” The New York Times reported that in recent months “he dropped out of school and stopped attending mosque.” Given these statements, it would seem that Mohamud is a disaffected youth who had withdrawn from his family and local community well before the tree lighting ceremony. Our Media, Ourselves Ironically, while Mohamud lamented how unrepresented he was by American Muslims and…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…ls on their editorial boards. Just a day after a Nov 24 story in which the New York Times, like the Forward, dared to question the Israeli government’s definition of “Jerusalem,” the Times published a letter from an Israeli government spokesperson stating that: The notion that some areas of Jerusalem—the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years—should be off-limits to Jews, while the entire city is open to Arabs, is deeply prejudicial. The sug…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…as founded. Opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in New York; the brutal attack on a Muslim cabbie; the proposed burning of Qur’ans by a small church that created a media sensation; the passage of a law in Oklahoma outlawing shari’ah—taken together these and other similar incidents point to the sacred value of hating Muslims for Americans who place fear above education, knee-jerk militarism over carefully considered analysis…

I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan

By Joanna Brooks

…ing front-page, column-one headlines in the national edition of the Sunday New York Times and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert calling for a “Million Moderate March” on Washington, DC, for October 30, it seems right to ask of these moderates the same questions we here at RD have consistently asked of the Tea Party: does this movement have a religion? Here’s a brief roll call from the moderate camp: Michael Bloomberg: Reform Judaism Jon Stewart: Ref…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…he South, and when it came time for a college search, she cast her eyes to New York University, graduating in 2005 with her BFA. She is now studying for a master’s degree at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Button doesn’t flinch when approaching difficult subject matter. From the Jim Crow South to the Rape of Tamar in the Bible, Button’s work presents a complex and fresh artistic vision. Her Hymnbook Project features pages from…