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Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ia studies in the United States, and asked them to evaluate the US role in South Asia. The scholars agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new US policy: 1. Support self-determination. The Obama administration needs to make clear that the people of the region shall decide their own future, and the United States or any outside power can only play a modest role in helping that process. It cannot control it. Many peo…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…it is generating such interest? Is it their origin is in the “West?” Is it South Asian? BU: It’s the West. The media is having a circle jerk over this idea at the time, because the notion of “Muslim punk” is sexy to them. The way the racist media sees it, they can put MMK in every story as the great white grandfather to this scene of confused, destructive Muslims who’ve turned around from their ‘opressive’ culture. There’s plenty of revolutionary…

South Carolina Baptists Confuse Condemnation and Compassion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…but never compassion. The saddest part of this story is how far afield the Southern Baptists have strayed from their own history. While it’s true the denomination was established in a split with northern Baptists over slavery, the Southern Baptists have much to be proud of. They have often been strong supporters of the separation of church and state, and their denomination was set up to be congregational with the convention speaking “to” the congr…

South Dakota Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Urges Pastoral Endorsements

By Mark Bergen

On May 14, Gordon Howie, a Republican candidate for Governor in South Dakota, called on churches to rise in an act of defiant insurgency: buck federal law and openly endorse a candidate. Preferably him. His invitation, evocatively named the “Pulpit Challenge,” was answered affirmatively by at least one pastor. The Rapid City Journal reports that on Sunday, May 15, at Liberty Baptist Tabernacle, the parish minister, Rev. H. Wayne Williams, stated…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…have looked centuries ago. In the alternate universe where the creators of South Park are serious Christians instead of masters of satire, this is the cartoon they would make. At one point Damien stifles a laugh. “In the past few months,” he tells me, “it seems like Father Shea’s been all about this chintzy visual stuff.” A few minutes later Justin has to choke back a laugh of his own during another animated sequence. But Father Shea doesn’t to no…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…y the “usurpers” will eventually be overthrown and “white supremacy in the South” will be “recognized.” Monuments to the Confederacy have long served to shore up the wounds—for white southerners and their sympathizers—of a devastating conflict, a catastrophic loss, and a humiliating occupation. The canonization, as folk saints, of men who led a slavers’ secession from and waged violent war against the United States is essential to an understanding…

Appeals Court Upholds South Dakota Suicide Advisory

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the suicide advisory provision in South Dakota’s abortion law, which requires doctors to tell patients that there is a link between abortion and suicide. Because in fact there may be no such thing. A 2009 systematic review concluded that the most well-designed study of mental health outcomes and abortion suggested that abortion made little, if any, difference in overall mental health of women. Moreover, if…

Which One Has the Religion Problem, Gingrich or Romney?

By Sarah Posner

…percent. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who came in second in the South Carolina primary in 2008 and had strong backing from religious conservatives, said he hoped that Romney’s Mormon faith did not prejudice South Carolinians. “I’d like to believe that’s not the issue,” Huckabee told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto. “Four years ago, I was accused of making it an issue. It wasn’t for me then, it isn’t for me now. I would no more not vote fo…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ld step of drawing down one million dollars from the Diocesan Endowment to promote the ‘no’ case,” he said. Davies told the gathering that “the stakes are high and the cost is high”. “Yet the cause is just and it is a consequence of our discipleship to uphold the gift of marriage as God has designed it — a creation ordinance for all people. By so doing, the wisdom of God is made manifest.” … “I believe that a change in the definition of marriage i…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…’s statement “a stark tactic to win support among conservative voters.” In South Korea, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are a largely taboo and politically unpopular subject. In recent years, powerful right-wing Christian groups have intensified a campaign against homosexuality, scuttling a bill that would have given sexual minorities the same protection as other minorities. The Times notes that the comments come at a t…