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Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible

By Hussein Rashid

…e village of five boroughs running an ad showing a plane smashing into the Twin Towers. No New Yorker would use this image. We were, and remain, deeply traumatized by that day. If a city could suffer from PTSD, NYC does. The text of the ad is ostensibly meant to reveal how, in her words, “savage” Islam is. The fragment of the verse she’s referring to reads in full: We shall cast terror into the hearts of the faithless because of their ascribing to…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…at one of Geller’s subway ads juxtaposing a Quranic quote with the burning Twin Towers, find MUSLIM RAGE at the newsstand, or listen to protesters cheering the burning of a Tennessee mosque earlier this month, and it’s easy to imagine that Islam and the West are eternal enemies, fated to default again and again to the same unending clash. Accordingly, Islam’s harshest American critics—such as Geller and Gingrich, or Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes…

The Redemptive Power of Jewish Self-Hatred

By Gordon Haber

…eemably warped the Aarenholds—the story ends with Siegmund deflowering his twin sister. The Blood of the Walsungs is a nasty, fascinating piece of business. (I’d put it in the same category as T.S. Eliot’s “Burbank with a Beidecker, Bleistein with a Cigar”—masterworks of hateful snobbery.) But in its time, Mann’s theme was not so unusual. For German-speaking intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century, the self-lacerating tendencies o…

Gluttons for Jesus

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…isions and then our country gets back on the right track.” Her ideological twin, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, pointed to the program as proof of a return to the “nanny state.” Now, the American Family Association’s Marcia West is going after Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren over his weight loss program, The Daniel Plan. Why? Because it’s simply not Christian enough. Warren teamed up with three well-known doctors—Daniel Amen, Mark Hy…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…ear religious monopoly of the Catholic faith in the region, even while the twin enemies of “secularism” and “modernization” haunt the dreams of the Vatican’s Eurocentric hierarchy. For Sicilia, a grieving father whose son was murdered by thugs last year, the pope’s visit is historic as well. Yet for him, and for those wounded voices he seeks to amplify, the pontiff’s arrival has less to do with pushing back secularism than with long-overdue attent…

Mitt Learns to Say “Y’all” as Primary Heads South

By Joanna Brooks

…icans were hellbent on getting rid of polygamy. They called it one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” along with slavery. This was an element of the Republican party platform in the 1850s. So in their emphasis on local control, states’ rights, and popular sovereignty, Mormons were allied with Southern Democrats. This kinship broke up when Southerners joined the anti-polygamy crusade in the 1880s. The moral argument against polygamy and defense of…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eservation earlier in the day, the lady had asked if we wanted a room with twin beds or the queen size bed. “Queen will be ﬁne,” I told her. As we sat side-by-side on her ﬁnely-crafted sofa we knew the jig was up. They knew, and we knew they knew. They never said a word, and their hospitality continued to be perfect – but we were suddenly tired, and needed to go to bed. I wonder, to this day, if we had told them at the beginning that we were gay i…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…e documentary videos on September 11—one of which donates proceeds to the “Twin Tower Fund,” set up my Mayor Giuliani. Another video offers images of “people jumping to their death.” But years before the Internet, in 1928, Tom Howard strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and photographed the electrocution of Ruth Synder. The photo was displayed the next day in the New York Daily News (January 14, 1928) with the headline “DEAD!” One million copi…

In Historic Vote, Presbyterians to Allow LGBT Clergy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e denomination. The Associated Press reports it was “the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area, based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., [that] cast the deciding 87th vote Tuesday night. Sixty-two presbyteries have voted against the measure and balloting will continue, but the majority needed for ratification was secured in Minnesota.” Not everyone within that presbytery was happy with the vote according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune: “It’s very u…

A Response to Hussein Rashid

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…slim Community. Even Ahmadi Muslim mosques are not counted among the total number of mosques in America. As another example, when 86 Ahmadi Muslims were brutally massacred in twin bomb attacks in Lahore on May 28th, only one American Muslim leader offered condolences to the Community. More tellingly, Professor Rashid appears to blame American Muslim diversity for the failure of American Muslim organizations to speak out against extremism with the…