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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…than their salaries might suggest. At issue is section 107 of the U.S. Tax Code, which contains two subsections pertaining to “the case of a minister of the gospel.” (The term was originally intended to refer only to ordained Christian clergy, but its meaning was later expanded by the Internal Revenue Service to include their counterparts in other religious traditions.) The first subsection, 107(1), allows a minister to exclude from taxable income…

Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

By Peter Gathje

…uples. The third criterion Dr. King identifies is that “an unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.” For same sex couples to have legal access just like heterosexual couples…

Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military — A Man Deemed an ‘Extremist’ by the US Military

By Jeff Sharlet

…cribes how the US military views the man soon to be in charge of it, in his 2024 book, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, his fourth: But you didn’t even have to have read the book to know this about Hegseth. All you had to have done was watch Fox News—which should be a basic part of the Trumpism beat. It was on Fox that Hegseth emerged as the leading voice in defiance of the military justice system. Sam Thielman…

With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation

By Robert Repino

…n the majority of Christian voters will cast their lot with Donald Trump in 2024. For the third election in a row. There was a time when it seemed like just about every pundit wondered how Christians could support a man whom religion professor Stephen Prothero described as “a human billboard for pride and lust.” Their musings suggested that Christians had higher ethical standards than everyone else and the experts speculated about the existence of…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees. In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison. This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon. Davis, who has since issued threats against—among others—President Biden, Judge Juan Merchan, Maxine Waters, CNN commentator Norm Eisen, New York Attorney General Tish James, Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, and Chuck Schumer, claims that Democ…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…non and the Destruction of the American Family Jesselyn Cook Crown July 23, 2024 It’s hard going to read compounding tales of people ruining their marriages and relationships with their children; losing their friends; getting ostracized from their communities; turning family members against each other; traumatizing their young children; making their adult children suicidal; getting sick from taking inappropriate medications or leaving ailments unt…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…is a Jamaican American Stanford professor emeritus, and her mother was an Indian American biomedical scientist. The two met and fell in love while both were involved in the civil rights movement. Since being “Indian” and “Jamaican” doesn’t describe race, she can determine from her roots that she is both Afro- and descended from an Asian woman of color—which means she’s a twofer, not simply made with one racial ingredient. The operative pronoun he…

Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle

By Sarah Rollens, Eric Vanden Eykel, and Meredith Warren

In the wake of the 2024 United States presidential election, “Give us Barabbas” emerged in progressive Christian social media circles as a pithy critique of those who voted for Donald Trump. But despite the evident good intentions behind its use, this phrase is more than just a pithy critique; it also functions as an anti-Jewish dogwhistle that promotes long standing stereotypes and misinformation about Jewish culpability in the crucifixion of Je…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…inked efforts of NAR networks, it’s become a potent far-right symbol and a coded emblem for an extensive spiritual warfare campaign, all of which became entwined with the Trump Administration and Trump 2020 Campaign. […] In the helter-skelter season between the 2020 election and the January 6 attempt to forcibly interfere with the result, the Appeal to Heaven flag had become a ubiquitous symbol adopted by charismatic Christians to exhibit their fa…