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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…s the equivalent of marriage. Europe’s far-right nationalist parties, like France’s National Front, saw the Brexit vote as a boost for their anti-immigrant and anti-EU politicies. The National Front has been getting big cash loans from Russia for several years; not so surprisingly, perhaps, it backed Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Its leader Marine Le Pen has been calling for an EU exit referendum in France for three years and nationalist parties a…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…t can also be turned into a kind of dogma of its own. Which is the case of France after the revolution. Reason was almost treated as a matter of faith. And then you get a kind of ideology of secularism rather than a description of a de facto separation; those are two slightly different things. And I think laïcité tends to be very ideological—and something that wants to extol reason as the highest form of human expression, that wants to ban religio…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…mo Sand’s area of academic expertise is the intellectual history of modern France. His previous book was Intellectuals, Truth and Power—From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War, published by Israeli’s prestigious press, Am Oved. He is not, nor does he claim to be, a historian of Jews and Judaism. Two Israeli historians whose specialty is modern Jewish history have criticized Shlomo Sand’s presentation of the Jewish past. Both Israel Bartal and Anit…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…hat he would press NATO to declare war on the Islamic State if elected. In France, Marine le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front, blamed Islamic fundamentalism for the violence. In Britain, the conservative commentator Kelvin MacKenzie attacked Channel 4 news for having a reporter wearing a hijab deliver the news. The Islamophobic right was not the only group insisting that Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s actions must have been motivated by Islami…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…treach to members of Europe’s far-right, ranging from directing funding to France’s National Front party to inviting Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party to visit the Crimean peninsula, allowing the West’s far-right an opportunity to support Moscow’s claims to Ukraine’s peninsula. As if to make Michel’s point, the same day his report was posted, globe-trotting anti-gay activist Scott Lively posted a virtual love letter to Russia, in which he praises “…

Does Religious Freedom Extend to Child Endangerment? It’s Not as Simple as It Seems

By Rebecca Moore

…s that occurred over the last 5-6 decades in 17 different countries. While France headed the list with 57 raids, the United States came in second with 14. Wright and Palmer argue that the impetus for these raids has come in large part from an anticult movement (or ACM)—individuals and organizations concerned about the harm that new religions may inflict upon unsuspecting individuals. The ACM, along with evangelicals and an eager media, were a driv…

Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

By John W. Morehead

…mus, a French anti-immigration writer. They note that while Tarrant was in France at a mall watching immigrant “invaders,” the idea came to him to use violence against nonwhites. Polakow-Suransky and Wildman quote from Tarrant’s manifesto illustrating the emotional impact this had on the soon-to-be mass murderer: “I found my emotions swinging between fuming rage and suffocating despair at the indignity of France, the pessimism of the french [sic]…

The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

…ymbol and as a place that welcomed (according to the most frequently cited number) 13 million visitors a year, Notre Dame is part of shared heritage, a link to the medieval past lying improbably at the heart of the world’s first great modern city. Right away, donors opened their checkbooks. In barely a day, nearly a billion dollars had been pledged. But the relief effort raised obvious questions. In a nation roiled by violent protests against econ…

New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…d their mandates by wading into these waters. In 2005, a Catholic group in France appealed for a judgment by the Court of Cassation of “blasphemy” against the fashion firm, Marithé et François Girbaud for a lewd promotional adaptation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper.” The Catholic plaintiffs charged that the irreverent commercial display violently assaulted the innermost sacred beliefs regarding Christ’s institution of the Eucharist at the Las…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…array of comments from people in Canada, the US, Australia, Great Britain, France, and elsewhere who monetarily supported the occupation. After GoFundMe cut off donations to the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” the majority of donations were sent through GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding website noted for being a platform used by extremist groups in the US. The website for GiveSendGo was then hacked and the donation files were released and made av…