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Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…p with our friends… My siblings and I were baptized together in Big Lake’s freezing, pristine waters by Pastor Paul Riley. I got into the habit of reading Scripture before I got out of bed every morning and making sure it was the last thing I did at night. But we learn much more about Palin’s beliefs regarding Israel from a 2008 story in the conservative, Rev. Moon-owned Washington Times: Mrs. Palin’s brand of evangelical Protestantism is especial…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…allujah and Ramadi have been liberated from ISIS, and most of Mosul is now free from ISIS control. Only the northern sections of the city are still dominated by ISIS holdouts, and their area dwindles almost daily in house-to-house combat. The northern portion of Syria, near the Turkish border, has been freed by Syrian Kurdish forces, and a combination of military forces is closing in on the capital city of the ISIS caliphate, Rakka. Perhaps more i…

Irony Thick in Bush Interview with Focus on the Family

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s left more than 48,000 people dead in Afghanistan and 1.6 million dead in Iraq. “I think the role of a leader is to understand there are differences on the issue of promoting a culture of life,” he says. “In other words, (we need to) convince people that we’re a more noble society if we honor life, without somebody castigating somebody based upon a differing opinion.” Then again, the only “life” that matters to Bush and Focus on the Family is tha…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Now, to prove that growing threat to religious freedom (especially Christian religious freedom), Dr. Gary Cass at the web site Defend Christians has come out with his top ten “Anti-Christian Acts of 2010.” Coming it at number one on the hit parade is the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that ended employment discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Cass warns that…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…red to cover their heads, they enjoy a spectrum of civil rights, including free contraception, that are well beyond those in most countries in the region. To repeat, there’s little “Islamist fervor” in Tunisia because Islamist fervor—something as benign as fasting in Ramadan—can land one in some very hot water. (Put that into perspective: imagine our government preventing folks from observing Lent.) But let’s not end there. Tunisia is also differe…

What Was Your Sign?, Pro-War MLK, & Benched for a Headscarf

By Michael J. Altman

…King, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, would approve of the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Locals in Louisiana are arming themselves and coming up with a “security plan” to protect their churches, synagogues, and mosques. An event titled “The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks” will be held at the Conservative Political Action Conference next month. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will no longer be the fund raising face or spokes…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…rly urge the government (as Secretary of State Clinton did today) to allow freedom of expression and assembly. But in supporting the government or remaining equivocal, we point the way away from Turkey—which, in the long run, is the best possible example for a religiously Muslim society to turn to—and we may even potentially empower Iran. Really. If the people of the Arab world feel that America is not behind them—or worse, is actively trying to h…

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

By Sarah Posner

…Secular Coalition for America and the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers asked the incoming Obama administration to change military regulations to protect the rights of non-adherents. The two groups also sought to improve the process for investigating and punishing cases of proselytizing and religious discrimination. Yet there’s still too little attention paid to both issues — in no small part because religious interest groups on th…

Mourning a Goddess: Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

By Susan Henking

…course, about much more than AIDS and gay rights. She stood up against the Iraq war, for example. In this she reminded us all of the relation between war and much else we need to fix about the world in which we live. And, of course, Elizabeth Taylor took with good humor the many drag versions of “Liz” that stood up alongside Carol Channing and Ethel Merman and Judy Garland and Liza Minneli — and later Celine Dion and others, in shows across the na…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…ims are demographic majorities—including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Comments during this meeting in Cairo showed that there are many in Europe who choose to ignore that—and they do so at their own peril. The second, and perhaps most important problem considering the new openness spreading across the Arab world, is that the West tends to act before it listens. This is a new day, in a new world, and it’s not entirely clear that Wes…