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Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…expertise of conservative guests on the topics of the day. Today they are promoting John McTernan, who claims that the BP oil spill disaster is “Obama’s Katrina” because Obama’s poor treatment of Israel caused the catastrophe. McTernan, a former federal Treasury agent, also claims that the Bush administration’s sanction of the 2005 Gaza withdrawal has a biblical connection to Hurricane Katrina. The Special Guests press release adds, “In 2010, th…

Film Follows Teen Exiles from Polygamous Sect

By Becky Garrison

…stream Mormonism and punished by the state, it has become the defining and central expression of faith. At the Tribeca Film Festival, I sat down with directors Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten for an in-depth discussion about their documentary. How did your background as Mormons influence the making of this film? Tyler Measom: We both were active Mormons. I served on a mission for the LDS church for two years. Our families are still active in the…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…that Harkabi’s research of the ’70s and ’80s had led to a revision of his central thesis was not publicized in the United States. According to Harkabi, in the 1980s “Arab attitudes,” as expressed in the aftermath of the 1967 War, were changing, and were far from monolithic. If a settlement of the conflict was to take place, Israel’s attitudes and actions would determine it. In 1986, Harkabi spoke critically of the Jewish settlers in the territori…

Religious Leaders Speak Out Against Physician Complicity In Torture

By Sarah Posner

…esponse to a new report revealing that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency used doctors to assist with experimentation of torture techniques on detainees, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) has released a video calling for an investigation. Scott Allen, a co-author of the Physicians for Human Rights report that detailed the CIA physicians’ activities, says in the video, “Not only did the US engage i…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…l, of course, was common to both, played with equal fervor by farm boys in Indiana and gang bangers in South Central. And not only did he survive in the wilds of Los Angeles, he thrived, voted by the Sporting News in 2009 as the greatest coach of all time. As a young Muslim kid growing up in Toronto in the 1970s, I had very few Muslim role models. One of them was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden’s 7-foot-2-inch center at UCLA. In learning more ab…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he very palace where the Capitoline collection was housed. The idea was to promote the fine arts, by providing a space in which contemporary artists could sketch the naked human form, both from Classical statues and live models. But that was all taking place near the old Roman Forum, the heart of the ancient profane city on the other side of town from the sanctity of Saint Peter’s. Less than a decade later in 1761, Benedict’s successor, Clement X…

‘Rome is Gay’

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…a cemetery all over again. And tomorrow that same Pyramid will become the central symbol and staging area for an ancient-style Roman triumph celebrating a very modern kind of gay pride. And one day after that, some thousands of miles away, citizens in the United States celebrated something else with parades: their independence, their freedom from undue oppression and interference in their personal affairs. It can be overwhelming, this palimpsesti…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…that surfs the waves of revolt isn’t just timely; it is, well, prophetic. Republican Gomorrah is a Jeremiad, and while some Republican partisans will naturally be outraged, others will nod their heads in agreement. Democrats are already rejoicing at the prospect of the Republican Jericho crumbling. Blumenthal spent years attending Christian Right events, tracking their leaders, and monitoring their media. The well-crafted book is packed with deta…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…tutions in Europe are facing many serious challenges. And yet even if this central assumption is true and Caldwell’s overall analysis of cultural and demographic evolution of Europe is correct, the author examines the questions within the primitive trappings of “The Green Peril.” Following a long list of European intellectuals such as Oriana Fallaci, Michel Houellebecq, and Caroline Forest, he argues that Europe is succumbing to an “Islamic cultur…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…perity and human rights for the West. Beijing is claiming that the Chinese central government will approve the nomination of the next Dalai Lama. Though the current Dalai Lama doesn’t see himself going anywhere anytime soon: “Even at this age, I find time for my Buddhist studies that give me strength, peace, happiness and keep me in good health.” Two deaths of note: Nasr Abu Zayd, an Egpytian scholar known for his liberal and critical approach to…