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Selective Sympathy and the Mumbai Chabad House

By Naomi Seidman

…jority of the victims were not Jewish, and the news organizations spoke of Western—especially British and American—targets. In this regard, they were mirroring my own selective sympathies, openly preferring some victims, some stories, over other, less “Western,” ones. Like these organizations, one reason I was drawn to the story of the Chabad House was that it was a Jewish story. More than that, the Chabad Rabbi and his wife—Gavriel and Rivkah Hol…

Religious Persecution Wolf in Anti-Defamation Sheep’s Clothing

By Austin Dacey

…ect threat to human rights. While they will have no impact on blasphemy in Western democracies (which already censor themselves far too often), they serve to legitimize the suppression of peaceful political and religious dissent elsewhere—first and foremost in the Islamic states themselves. Despite its public claim to represent the interests of the so-called Muslim world, the OIC is criticized most strenuously by those within OIC countries, like A…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…ombard us today in our increasingly polarized times. A recent episode from Western political life was for me especially reminiscent of the uglier side of the debates of Luther’s time. A Swedish newspaper published a political cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad worthy of the vile anti-Semitic tracts that have blighted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries. Not so long ago, Jews were routinely portrayed in popular European culture as bizarre semi-hu…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…ting from a disadvantage: many major powers around the world (specifically Western powers, but also some Arab and Muslim countries) will immediately distrust that government, no matter what its platform. Predicting Even More in the Futures I also think that the value of these democracies is perhaps romanticized. We are currently in a global situation wherein long-established Western democracies are completely powerless before international finance…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…actively follow the issues facing minority religions. The Koriya Mosque in Western China reportedly dates from 1237. Last week the Guardian published satellite images of the mosque in a kind of grotesque before-and-after. The first image, from 2017, shows the mosque from above, casting an elongated shadow. The second image shows “a smooth patch of earth.” There’s a less radical but nevertheless disturbing story about China’s Kargilik Mosque. Accor…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…bling to keep up with the larger social acceptance of LGBTQ people in many Western nations. Francis is, after all, a 79-year-old Argentine, and sometimes his ideas about gender reflect his complex responses to the pervasive machismo of the Latin American culture in which he was raised. When Argentinian president Christina Kirchner helped push through legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, Francis—then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio—lead a march against sa…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…y the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council eviscerated Russia’s traditional values resolution. Not only did it not recognize universal traditional rights, it went further “Negative impacts of traditional values arise not only in non-Western countries. The Special Rapporteur on violence against women warned against ‘Orientalising’ cultures and traditions, and noted that traditional and cultural values in Western countries propagate har…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…OP due to his strong following in the midwest, it was King’s full-throated promotion of white supremacy and white nationalism as a virtue that finally proved too much even for the GOP. And so, in 2019, Republicans unanimously voted to remove him from his committee assignments (though he wasn’t removed from the “G.O.P. House conference itself, so he [could] still attend its party meetings”). Since then, the GOP has been radicalized even further, an…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…t to the tenets of natural history, creationism retained the upper hand in Western thought until the mid-1800s. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed the terms of this debate by supplying a materialistic account of how species evolve. Every offspring differs from its parents and siblings, Darwin argued. With limited resources, only the fittest of these offspring survive to propagate their variations. In this manner,…

Biblical Inerrancy: Responses to “What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe?”

By C. Joshua Villines

…ic stance” against contemporary Western society (and sometimes against non-Western religions), which aligns them with radically alienated conservatives who have more secular concerns (e.g., the Tea Party Movement in the United States). It is this trend, I suspect, that more than any other factor has increased tensions among Christians to the breaking point, despite occasional efforts (e.g., the recent “Civility Covenant” signed by progressive and…