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CNN: Asking the Wrong Questions About Islam

By The Editors

…don’t hear about Muslims who oppose such protests and violence. (That from CNN, “among the world’s leaders in online news and information delivery,” as it was showing images of angry protesters setting things aflame.) To the rescue, our own Haroon Moghul explained to Lemon why the media hasn’t paid attention to the vast majority of Muslims who aren’t protesting, why protests in the Muslim world are about far more than blasphemy and a crude film. W…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…—and the reward of that is that this religion could take off and become a truly global faith. It is similar to the backlash against Santa Muerte from the Vatican, where they don’t like people customizing or curating their religious experience. They really don’t, and there it is right there. Unfortunately, so much of religion, particularly institutional religion, is about control. But that’s just not how it works. There are a lot of lessons I hope…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o the retired pope Benedict to “step forward and preach the unadulterated truth.” The truth, he added, is that homosexuality is wrong, and taking a so-called non-judgmental approach to it can only encourage its growth. “There is something worse than murdering a child,” Levin said. “Because, as the Talmud says, when you kill someone physically you don’t touch them spiritually. But when you lead a person into heinous sin, you kill them spiritually i…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…these essential deliveries was shiploads of molasses for the distilling of rum in prodigious amounts—rum that then went to Africa as currency for the purchase of slaves. In this way the export of essential goods from stolen Narragansett lands to the cruelest slave drivers on the planet, and the subsequent shipment of rum to Africa in return for slaves, formed the foundation of Rhode Island’s considerable early wealth. It is anything but easy to ge…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…sidential power alarms his foes,” USA Today, October 26, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/26/donald-trump-presidential-power/71255801007/. [9] Lisa Mascaro, “Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision,” Associated Press, August 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981. [10] Todd Graham, “Debate coach:…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…series of riddles? Do you have any idea that he borrowed that from an Old English riddling tradition? Does it truly matter that the aforementioned Hadrian had brought the whole riddling tradition to pre-Conquest England from Africa? You disgust me. Tolkien was a man of his time. He had probably never seen a Black or Brown person until 1972. In fact, he’s likely turning in his grave at how WOKE these new adaptations are given that he famously said…

If the Girl Scouts Investigated the Bishops…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…music—the Sierra Club and Doctors Without Borders! But what if Girl Scouts USA were to turn the tables and scrutinize the bishops’ group overseeing the investigation: the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth? After all, that committee includes the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland, who publicly bemoaned the fact that former Harvard president Lawrence Summers was excoriated for suggesting that women tend to have l…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…different ways profoundly odious influences on the Middle East and Muslim politics, or that their involvement of America and Russia, respectively, in their clash of religious authoritarianisms, might contain the ingredients for the next World War. Certainly all of us should be paying close attention. But there’s no reason to become hyperbolic. This feud has lasted 38 years now, which is significantly less than 1,000 years. For one thing, the mode…

Gingrich Signs Personhood USA Pledge

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e in favor of a national personhood amendment at the Thanksgiving Family Forum, and then got flack for it, he clarified that he thinks personhood begins at “successful implantation,” not fertilization. Perhaps he was thinking of how the personhood-at-fertilization definition—so decisively trounced in Mississippi—raised serious worries that assisted reproduction and hormonal birth control would become unavailable and/or illegal. Except now he’s sig…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the 16-year-old who died after being stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox man at Jerusalem’s Pride parade. Gambia: President threatens to kill nephew for supporting LGBT rights Alagie Jammeh, 25-year-old nephew of the country’s viciously anti-gay president, has been threatened by his uncle with life in prison or execution if he ever returns to the country. His crime? Saying on Facebook, “No one should be denied their fundamental basic human rights because…