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Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…utul and his family left Bangladesh, perhaps forever. Tutul is now safe in Norway thanks to the International Cities of Refuge Network. Like Abir, Tutul remains hopeful: “I hope for a secular and democratic Bangladesh, where people have secure life and enjoy freedom of speech, freedom to publish, and freedom to express.” Still—what has he and his family lost? And what is Bangladesh losing as a result of this unchecked mayhem? Who Will Remain? As t…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…formation. Women were not ordained in Lutheran churches until the 1940s in Norway, with most of the Nordic countries following within a couple of decades. (In the United States, the first woman wasn’t ordained in the Lutheran tradition until 1970.) Pope Francis has met with many female church leaders in the three years since his election. And the outreach to Lutherans, like his recent meeting with the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…oth here—in El Paso, Orange County, Pittsburgh—or abroad—in New Zealand or Norway—point unambiguously to “packs” of white supremacists or other radical collectives. We need to begin to regard such acts of terror with a “social” eye. In the past, in other contexts, Americans have shown themselves capable of seeing past the individual “lone wolf” to the collective “wolf pack.” In 1993, when the blind sheik’s gang tried to explode a truck loaded with…

Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

By Murali Balaji

…lacement” trope. Indeed, white Christian terrorists like Anders Breivik in Norway, Dylann Roof in South Carolina, and now Brenton Tarrant, are self-styled (and self-described) soldiers in a fight against greater threats: secularism and pluralism. While white Christian nationalism has its roots in the United States during Reconstruction, it grew in the 1960s as the evangelical movement attracted new congregants fearful of racial and gender equality…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…mbership in his manifesto connected to the 2011 bombing and mass murder in Norway. Far-right groups like the Knights Templar International use the same kinds of rhetoric, promoting anti-Muslim hate and Christian nationalism in Serbia and elsewhere. And Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist responsible for the Christchurch mosque mass shootings, copied the language of Breivik’s manifesto and covered his weapons with names, dates and rhetoric of white supr…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…okha, the reverend who works with churches and mosques throughout Kenya to promote acceptance of gays. He said he and fellow activists spend most of their time convincing families of LGBT individuals that “Having an LGBT child is not a curse from God.” Makokha said Muslims “are a bit radical when it comes to the dialog on sexuality and faith. The Koran says (homosexuals) should be stoned to death.” But unlike in Nigeria, Kenyan Muslims do not act…

Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…sounds like a paranoid, dystopian delusion, it’s not without evidence. In Norway, the Russian Orthodox Church has been buying property with unnerving proximity to key military installations since 2016. It was also in 2016 that the Russian Orthodox Church opened its “spiritual center” in the heart of Paris, which is widely suspected of serving as a base for Russian intelligence. And in Finland, where the Orthodox Church of Finland (an autonomous c…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…g the top 10 in religion in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. In January 2012, he became a #1 New York Times bestselling author heavily promoted by his publisher, until Mars Hill removed this designation from his bio following revelations that he had paid ResultSource, a marketing firm that “creates”bestsellers. At present, Driscoll seems to have been dropped by his agent, and his relationship with his current publisher Tyndal…

Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas County, Minnesota, in the fourteenth century only to be massacred by Native American “skraelings?” This is not the question that most interests David M. Krueger in his new book Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. Instead, Krueger asks why a variety of people—Scandinavian immigrants, American Catholics, and now dubious researchers…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…use for what Lankford writes of Anders Breivik, who massacred 77 people in Norway last year, most of them teenagers: Instead of trying to prevent Europe’s “cultural and demographical suicide,” Breivik should have listened to the King of Pop. As Michael Jackson explained in his critically acclaimed song “Man in the Mirror,” sometimes the best way you can help others is to “take a look at yourself, and then make a change.” The upshot is that The Myt…