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The Next Big Religion Issue: Immigration

By Daniel Schultz

…not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.” That’s pretty much it. Being an “alien” (the Bible’s term for a migrant) is a part of the Israelite identity. Abraham was a migrant, Joseph was a migrant (albeit unwillingly), Moses was a political refugee, Ruth was an economic refugee, virtually the entire nation was sent off into exile in Babylon, and so on and so forth. Because of all these experiences, the law b…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…om his ugly abandonment by his brothers to his unexpected rise to power in Egypt, to the the happy if still awkward family reunion down the line. But this doesn’t mean the Muslim world doesn’t produce its own literature and media, which has progressively become more and more sophisticated in terms of the quality of storytelling and production. Until the rise of social media and indigenous film production, though, this media was mostly the written…

Blank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft

By Peter Laarman

…n when he responds to the groans and cries of unpaid laborers in Pharoah’s Egypt (Exodus 6:5). From that point forward the biblical emphasis on the just treatment of labor remains in full force and effect: Leviticus 19:13: “You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.” Deuteronomy 24:14-15: “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers…You shall…

The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…against Egypt and other Arab nations determined to destroy it. But in fact Egypt massed troops on Israel’s border only because the Egyptians believed (from faulty intelligence) that Israel was preparing to invade its ally, Syria. Though that wasn’t true, it is true that Israeli military leaders were urging their civilian government to fight a war sooner rather than later. The Israelis knew that the Egyptian army was far too weak to resist the Jewi…

Christian Passover, Yes or No?: A Response to Rabbi Moffic

By David Greenspoon

…observances. The biblical commandment to commemorate the liberation out of Egypt understood that the non-Israelite community who joined the Israelites were required to undergo circumcision before eating the paschal offering. So, clearly the Bible in Exodus understands that this is indeed an exclusive, even tribal, celebration and experience. More importantly is that the seder itself is a rabbinic institution, not a biblical one. Suggesting that th…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…politics can be fused.” But how do we get to that point? We have seen, in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, that Saudi Arabia and Iran are willing to kill large numbers of civilians to defeat democracy. (The very thing, incidentally, Iran complains about—our 1953 role in the return of the monarchy to absolute power—is what Iran has been doing day in and day out in Syria for years now, and at far more brutal cost in lives lost.) But, sadly, Saudi A…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…hy am I doing this?’ I think of the conversation that took place in Cairo, Egypt, between an Egyptian Christian pastor who has been severely persecuted by Islam and a man named Lou Engle” (Engle is the theocracy-minded founder of The Call, a fundamentalist youth movement, who is leading a 40-day fast to pass Proposition 8.) “When Lou was in Cairo, Egypt, this pastor said to him, as a pastor that suffers at the hands of radical Islam, he said, ‘The…

Dear Governor Kasich, Will You Come Lead My Passover Seder?

By Michael Schulson

…ut I’m totally at a loss when it comes to the story of Israel’s sojourn in Egypt and return to the Promised Land. With Passover coming so soon, I’m in the market for a Jewish ritual expert. A wise child, if you will. And apparently you’ve got it covered. I very much enjoyed the video of you explaining the story of Joseph to a group of Talmudic scholars. I keep coming back to this one statement of yours about Joseph: “They threw him in that ditch,…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…women cover their heads, how’s this?: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Bahrain. That’s 15 countries, including the most populous, Egypt. And while I’m not sure about The Sudan, there are of course strong restrictions around women’s dress in Saudi Arabia. That’s possibly 2 countries for the other side. (In fact, in the whole Muslim world, only two oth…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ur thumb for decades? It is easy for Americans to forget that we supported Egypt’s dictator for thirty years, and happily welcomed Qaddafi back into ‘civilization’ when he realigned his policies with our own—not in the area of human rights, but ‘counterterrorism’. (And by ‘our’ I mean certain governments.) The next best response to Dawkins will come, if it does at all, with how Muslims deal with a multipolar world, in which the West is not the onl…