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Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…Muslims satiates the anti-Muslim bigots, the fearful, and terrorists themselves. But Mr. Trump’s executive order isn’t about keeping Americans safe, but the weaponizing of fear against a vulnerable population. It is not coincidental that countries with actual histories of terrorism like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates are not on the list. His actions are about fear and the utility of that fear for his political agenda. Alongside the histo…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…rship. This alternative educational and media ecosystem of knowledge was galvanized and mobilized when the Christian Right emerged in the late 1970s to influence the Republican Party. There were two long-term consequences for our fake news world. First, theologically and politically conservative Christians learned to distrust the proclamations of the supposedly neutral media establishment, just as they had grown to suspect the methods and conclusi…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

Last month Nike debuted its “Equality” campaign with an ad featuring high-profile athletes like Serena Williams, LeBron James, and Megan Rapinoe. And for International Women’s Day, Nike announced a “Pro Hijab” for female Muslim athletes, with its own eye-grabbing (and controversial) video. These ads are inspirational—unless you believe that the factory workers making Nike sneakers, who are largely female and people of color, should actually be tr…

Spiritual Mapping Evangelicals Battle Vodou in Haiti

By Reza Aslan

…McAlister. What I found was a group of devout missionaries who view themselves as warriors fighting a spiritual battle against Haiti’s ancestral religion, Vodou, for the very soul of the nation. The concept of Spiritual Mapping originated among a right-wing Christian movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Think Pentecostalism, but with an adrenaline shot. These mostly white, mostly American evangelicals believe that the world is i…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…acy of a bygone era, even if many Trump supporters may not put it to themselves or others like that. Indeed, as Sarah Posner has recently explained, in voting for Trump by 81%, white evangelicals “have returned the religious right to its own origins—as a movement founded to maintain the South’s segregationist ‘way of life.’” She continues, “By backing Trump, white evangelicals were playing into the hands of a new, alt-right version of Christianity…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

There is a moment in the film The Promise—about the Armenian genocide—when the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire goes to meet a Turkish official to seek the release of an imprisoned American reporter. As they speak, the ambassador comments on the plight of the Armenians, who are being killed by the Ottomans. The official wonders if the ambassador’s sympathies come from his being Jewish. The ambassador responds that he is Jewish, and he is…

VIDEO: “First-Generation, Indian-American Muslim Kid” Makes Fun of the President. Onstage.

By Sunnivie Brydum

In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show‘s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D.C. press corps and the absent Trump administration to the biting, funny-because-its-true humor laced with socio-political critique that’s made him a standout senior correspondent on The Daily Show. The full 25-minute speech is worth watching (see vid…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

“Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” This inner monologue from Offred, the protagonist of Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, is a warning that echoes in our time. When Margaret Atwood published the dystopian novel in 1985, she said there was nothing in the book that hadn’t already happened. What makes the story so eerie to read now is that sense of recognition, of c…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made headlines for his appearance at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians, where he proclaimed Christians to be among the most persecuted people in the world. While there are parts of the world where the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, is a real problem, the United States is not one of them. Russia, on the other hand, has e…

“Exvangelical” Podcast: Safe Space for Those “Living In, Leaving, or Coming to Terms With” Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

In June 2015, I asserted here on RD that “we need to listen to the voices of those who have been harmed by the fundamentalist tendencies in evangelicalism,” and that “we need to center the voices of LGBTQ youth, such as transgender teen Leelah Alcorn who was driven to suicide by her evangelical upbringing.” Almost two years later, white evangelicals are demonstrably the demographic most singularly responsible for bringing us the disastrous presid…