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Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…er-messaging initiative, Rogers suggests that, “the gap between US foreign policy in the Muslim world and its message of peace undermines any anti-violent extremism propaganda campaign.” She concludes: Anyone who goes online and says: “I don’t like beheading innocent civilians”—of course a lot of people are going to agree with you . . . I’m not 100 percent against these sorts of efforts, but I do think they are 99.9 percent worthless . . . I think…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…ted States. Our politicians tend to issue strong statements, but generally policy continues as it always has. We hear Newt Gingrich say all sorts of things about Saudi Arabia, but do we really think that if Newt Gingrich was in power he would suddenly drop that alliance? The Brotherhood’s position on foreign policy reflects to some degree a wider Arab and Muslim opinion on the region, and a vacuum in power which has emerged since America’s relati…

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…s: infrastructure spending, trade, manufacturing, immigration, and foreign policy. He is happy to outsource much of the agenda around social policy, which includes all the culture war issues like abortion, LGBT rights and “religious liberty,” to Pence and his allies. Pence has deep roots as a culture warrior. When President George Bush’s massive plan to tackle HIV/AIDS in the developing world was passed, Pence, who was a congressman at the time, s…

The Bad Religion at the Heart of GOP Healthcare Policy

By Peter Laarman

…nce companies and health providers are totally free to suck out your blood. State authority on insurance matters: Where to begin with this one? “States’ rights” has an obvious and nasty racial history. It was hardly surprising that most of the states that refused to expand Medicaid or adopt exchanges represent the Old Confederacy and the Wild West. We might breathe a momentary sigh of relief that the destruction of Obamacare is temporarily halted….

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…trated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing according to shari’ah.” In its 2010 conspiratorial report, “Sharia: The Threat to America,” the Center for Security…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

…zing the opinion. As the Court itself noted, governments must adhere to a “policy of nondiscrimination.” AU also announced it intends to help citizens identify a diverse range of speakers able to deliver invocations at meetings that are “welcoming and inclusive.” The American Humanist Association has already announced an initiative to identify secular and atheist speakers. Some conservative lawmakers saw the Court’s decision as a license to instit…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…t of the religious right. The effect could be a further blending of public policy and doctrine-infused faith, where the milder social conservatism of moderate evangelicals is welcomed into an Obama government as part of a ‘big tent’ effort to accommodate believers.” “An Obama victory will give the religious right a highly visible target to attack for at least four years,” said Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst, Americans United for Separation of C…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e classic culture-war debates. What would it mean to have a pro-family tax policy? What would it mean to have a pro-family health care policy?” ++++++++++ RD Tidbits Hein to Baylor: Jay Hein, who was deputy assistant to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has been hired by Baylor University as Distinguished Senior Fellow and director of the Program for Faith and Service at Baylor University…

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…gh this window of political opportunity for our nation to achieve systemic change. In other crucially necessary areas of our society, the passage and enforcement of civil and human rights legislation correlated to changes in public attitudes toward protections for vulnerable communities and the role of government. New regulations that cast unfettered police power and police violence as unambiguously criminal and normalize it as punishment may set…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…Reconciling Ministries Network and many individual Methodists oppose this policy. To date, there has been no church-wide General Conference agreement on changing the policy. But in 2008, the Methodists entered into full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a denomination that later allowed same-sex loving persons in ministry. Minerva grew up with a gay cousin who the family ostracized. She loved him. She searched the script…