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Religious Differences Are Real (and Tolerance Can Be an Empty Virtue)

By Stephen Prothero

…essence one seduces us into thinking that we can send 160,000 troops into Iraq without reckoning with the fundamental differences between Christianity and Islam or, for that matter, between Sunnis and Shias. It prevents us from seeing the role that religions plan in many of the world’s hotspots: from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Nigeria and Kashmir. Equally importantly, it prevents us from seeing and appreciating the unique beauty of…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…thcoming books on the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War writ large, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq and, to my knowledge, there aren’t. It has been almost seventy years and still there isn’t a good religious history of American involvement in the Second World War. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I grew up in Minnesota. Pissing people off terrifies me. I’m only slightly more comfortable with the concept…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

…ade that their reporters in America are not as free as American clients in Iraq, where the Prime Minister expressed his admiration, or Jordan, where the King expressed his. Interestingly, even the Israeli press lauded Fadlallah. There is also an important point to keep in mind regarding Fadlallah’s supposed role as spiritual guide: both parties denied that he was the guide for Hezbollah, but he was the admitted spiritual guide of Prime Minister Ma…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…tant than Muslim civilians and combatants with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have a very different sense of the shared human community now, and we need to adjust accordingly. This year, I face a dilemma because it seems the most pressing needs are actually in my own family. Some jurists say the zakah cannot be given to one’s own family. I think the rationale was appropriate for the extended family networks. If we give to our own family then…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…a fundamentalist Christian church that contends that God kills soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality and for the presence of gays in the US military. The church operates a number of Web sites, including www.godhatesfags.com, on which it disseminates its rabidly anti-homosexual views. The church has gained notoriety for staging protests at the funerals of US soldiers in order to draw attention to it…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…utside our own beliefs. The religion of the majority cannot be encouraged, promoted, or endorsed using non-voluntary communal funds. We live in a time when Christianity is viewed as the “civilized” religion, and Christians with vastly different doctrines and beliefs espouse tolerance and comradery with one another. It has not always been so and it is naive to believe that it will continue to be so. There have been times not far beyond the short ho…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed, and forced to leave Syria and join the fighting fronts in northwestern Iraq.” The Sharia Court in Deir ez-Zor reportedly said that Abu Zaid should, like the boy, die for being gay, but ISIS commanders demanded he be sent to fight in Iraq instead. Subhi Nahas, a gay Syrian who escaped the country fearing for his life, and who in a history-making speech addressed the United Nations last year about LGBT persecution in Syria, told The Daily Beast…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…t of the sort that would impress Shi’ite militia and al Qaeda activists in Iraq. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by Morris Dees, which has closely watched the rise of right-wing extremism in this country for many decades, declares that threats and incidents of right-wing violence have risen 200% in this past year—unfortunately coinciding with the tenure of the first African-American president in US history. When Chip Berlet, one of this c…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…llows the release on Monday of pictures of the execution of another man in Iraq by Isis militants. Found “guilty” of homosexuality, the desperate blindfolded victim is seen clinging to the parapet before being pushed off the roof of a building in Mosul. Turkey: Designer in detention for remarks Barbaros Şansal, a fashion designer known for his LGBT advocacy, is being detained by police after he “was subjected to a lynch attempt” at the airport in…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pposes youth center proposed by radical Muslim cleric Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is opposing efforts by a radical cleric to open an Islamic youth center in the city, reports the National Post. Mr. Coderre, who met with spiritual leaders Wednesday in hopes of fostering dialogue in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, said he will consult with borough mayor Réal Ménard about the plan. But Montreal’s mayor said he rejects Mr. Chaoui’s r…