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How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…been so massive as to reverse the verdict of the battle of Tours; southern France now has more mosques than churches. Noebel lauds Lind’s tracing of “the Marxist influence of Antonio Gramsci” and George Lukacs “and their planned assault on Western culture.” He condemns the Frankfurt School (all demons in Breivik’s manifesto also) and praises “one voice in the wilderness seeking to expose the Marxist influence in America, but especially on her camp…

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…

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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…the line in both religion and life. He served a mission for his church in France, where his victories came in the form of renewed faith rather than numerous converts. And he married his high school sweetheart, Ann Davies, whom he did succeed in converting to the faith. (When, as a senior in high school, he leaned in to kiss her one night, she asked, “what do Mormons believe?” They ended up staying up to talk religion.) Eventually Romney became a…

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 Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…veiled, in black burkas that would be banned in other parts of Europe—like France. The thought flashes me back to the war over Bosnia. Are such burkas what the former French President, Mitterrand, had in mind when he told President Clinton that France would not stand for a Muslim-dominated nation in the heart of Europe? (Such words sound innocuous, but for their timing: During a genocidal war against that nation.) Over an hour in, and Sarajevo eme…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…ged crowd of Huguenots burst into the Chapel of St. Lawrence in Steenvorde France and proceeded to destroy with hammers and picks any ecclesiastical art that they came across. They toppled statues of Mary and the saints, destroyed crucifixes, smashed stain glassed windows, and defaced tombs. It was not an isolated incident, indeed it triggered a wave of iconoclastic fury that radiated north from France into the Low Countries, with cathedrals, chur…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…icion that I would be more like myself and not so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. I had stuck with this plan—umrah any time of the year, the further from the three sacred months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, sh…

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…

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…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…al-Fitr because viewers complained the commercial was too Christmas-y. In France, halal food is going upscale. Christian morality meets communist population control: evangelical group Focus on the Family has partnered with Chinese officials to bring its abstinence program to Chinese teens. Muslim couples can find “shariah-approved” products for “sexual health” at El Asira—an online shop attracting 30,000 visits a week. Teetotaling Mormons in Idah…