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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…

Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

By John Blevins

…courageous and to decide if it is willing and able to accept LGBT folk without reservation so that our voices might actually be heard in these seemingly endless conversations that are part of the Church today. It’s time for Emory University to clarify the tension between its own non-discrimination policy and that of the United Methodist Church. And when Candler decides to come down on the side of honoring denominational policy in violation of uni…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…tts of companies that fail to meet its standards of “decency,” Fischer (no policy wonk, despite being director of “Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy”) has taken the public rhetoric to a new, ugly level. According to former employees of the AFA, the views represented by Fischer are not only tolerated within the organization, but any opposition to its anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant invective—including reliance on white nativist…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…artbeat bill”), Bob McEwen, executive director of the Council for National Policy (a secretive leadership group of the religious and political Right), and Chad Connelly a national Republican faith outreach operative. Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the powerful evangelical lobby led by John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas is also deeply involved with NACL. Rapert says the relationship goes back to 2012 when he filed a resolution in the legislatur…

Government-Sanctioned Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…organizations that receive federal funding. Obama still hasn’t changed the policy, instead saying his administration would assess instances of discrimination on a “case-by-case basis,” angering civil liberties advocates who have been pressing him for well over a year to implement a policy change. World Relief received over $14 million in federal funding in FY 2009, from the U.S. Agency for International Development, State Department, and Departmen…

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…dependence for all colonized peoples. Their ultimate goal was to bring the United States’ systematic violation of black citizens’ human rights before the United Nations. This intense NGO lobbying took place in the wake of the 1941 Atlantic Charter. Originally issued by Churchill and Roosevelt, the Charter articulated Allied war aims and principles for a “better future for the world” to be realized “after the destruction of Nazi tyranny.” Among the…

Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

By Daniel Schultz

…particular to Sessions’ use of a passage from Romans 13 in defense of the policy, a citation the Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, top executive of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society called “unsound, a flawed interpretation, and a shocking violation of the spirit of the Gospel.” The UMNS article says charges against lay members is very rare in the UMC, a point amplified by reporting from Religion News Service. It’s possible that Sessions coul…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…on. While I have no doubt it primarily refers to Muslims, the NSS acknowledges other types of domestic terrorism more than Brennan does. Overall, I see this administration as living up to many of points Obama spoke about in Cairo, almost a year ago. But I agree with Marc Lynch, writing at Foreign Policy: the foreign policy may be good, but the domestic policy with respect to our rights and torture leaves much to be desired. We need more engagement…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…anced across, gender, race, and ethnicity. We met people from England, the United States, Libya, France, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, the Netherlands, Germany, Chile, Turkey, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, the Russian province of north Ossetia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Japan, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Spain. They took us into their virtual communities, houses, and mosques, invited us to fatwas, too…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…ry. Last December, the candidate promised to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Shortly before that, he proposed the creation of a registry of American Muslims. Since then, Trump’s been all over the place. He’s talked about ideological testing at the borders, a ban on immigration from “any nation that has been compromised by terrorism,” and he’s scaled back his original proposals in ways that seem to actually expand them. Last night’s pe…