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UPDATED: Religion Has Been Framed; Covering the Aga Khan’s Visit

By Hussein Rashid

…r number of non-Isma’ili Shi’ah does not make them the main branch. If the central belief of Shi’ism is the belief of Imamah, then the only group with a present, living Imam are the Isma’ilis, making them the main group. The point is that there are many ways to claim superiority, but the reality is most Muslims have lived with various other communities of interpretation. The rhetoric of conflict now permeates our discourse on religion. Once religi…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…ntrenched racist ideological moves and the function of Whiteness have been central to Trump’s campaign and presidency. Ta-Nehisi Coates called him “the first White President” which distinguished him as the first president whose ascendency was not passively predicated upon his White inheritance by way of an “elegant detachment,” as it was for others in the past, but rather was achieved through making “the awful inheritance explicit.” In other words…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…ough. If they were, they’d lose. Dishonesty, fraudulence and bad faith are central to their aims. What would Jesus do? Not that. Here’s some context, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor (my italics): “As in many states, residents in parts of rural, conservative Virginia say they seem to inhabit an increasingly different daily reality than that of urban and suburban districts. That feeling of separation was compounded by last November’s Democ…

Abuse of Power is at the Heart of Catholic Church Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…in the US, edging ever closer to the inner circle of the current Pope, the central problem is coming into sharper focus. I suggested in a previous post that the abuse at issue here is the abuse of power, not sexual abuse per se. I hope it is clear that, in saying this, I am not unaware of the enormous damage that is done to young children when they are sexualized before their time. But I am concerned that the Left, to the degree that it participat…

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Connell calling a floor vote on a bill that would make illegal many of the central tenets of Donald Trump’s operating procedure seems low. If the Equality Act were in force, plainly transphobic policies like the Administration’s newly announced ban on transgender people serving in the military would be even more difficult to justify legally than they already are. While it’s certainly no bandage for deeply engrained systemic injustice, The Equality…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…reporting domestic abuse “made bad choices.” Trump wrote in 2014 that the Central Park Five—black men falsely convicted of rape as teenagers in 1989 who then won a $41 million settlement from the City of New York—should not be considered innocent because they “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” By his own admission, then, Trump is no different from these men. But he sees little need to repent. In the moral vacuum Christian conservatives ar…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…billion adherents to a handful of verses cherry-picked from the Qur’an. A central component of the systematic demonization is his caricature of Muslims and Muhammad as illiterate, perverted, sexist, and responsible for slavery. Federer repeatedly described Muhammad as illiterate, suggesting he was ignorant and making no mention of the fact that literacy at that time would have been rare. In fact, Federer changed the traditional story in which Muh…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…sequences of that are. The degree to which anti-Islamic discourse is now a central part of national political discourse is astonishingly worrisome. I think it’s actually to the vast credit of this country, that despite having now endured almost two decades of continuous armed conflict with Islamist states and groups, there’s been so little violence against Muslims in this country. But when you weaponize words in this way, and you legitimate that i…

A Memoir of Jewish, Transgender Spirituality

By Joy Ladin

…s I applied to what I said about myself: to only say what was necessary to promote understanding about the difficult issues I was discussing. I felt morally obligated to talk about the ways in which my ex-wife and children suffered as a result of my transition, because such suffering is widespread in families that go through gender transition. I felt obligated not to talk about things that would only apply to my ex and my children, and I asked my…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…nderstands nor values.” Fascinating, then, that freedom should also play a central role in the Dayspring case – arguably serving as a “verbal fig leaf” of another variety. As CT reports, Dayspring and its allies are “accusing the state board of overstepping the First Amendment and infringing on their rights to free religious exercise and free speech.” Among the colleges and seminaries that spurn regional accreditation, many justify their decision…