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Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ation that came to be called the Federation of Islamic Associations of the United States and Canada (FIA). The first president of the FIA, Abdallah Igram, a World War II veteran, approached President Eisenhower in 1953 to ask, “Why is there no symbol for the Islamic faith on a Muslim serviceman’s identification tags so that he might be given fitting burial rites if he’s killed in action?” His query led to the use of an “I” on the dog tags of Ameri…

Corporations, Religious Conscience, Citizens United, and Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…onents of the coverage requirement. O’Brien had argued that, post-Citizens United, a corporation should be considered a “person” under RFRA, thus capable of having a “substantial burden” placed on its religious exercise by government regulation or action. These are the two crucial legal issues at stake in cases brought by for-profit companies: is an attenuated “burden”—as opposed to an actual burden on one’s ability to exercise one’s religion—eno…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…re host Matt Walsh tweeted to his 2.5 million followers that “the absolute number one priority of the United States right now should be to protect American lives and avoid getting our nation involved in a disastrous conflict overseas.” North Dakota State Representative Brandon Prichard, a Christian nationalist, echoed Walsh, tweeting that “US tax dollars are better spent at our own border or on combatting addiction than being sent to Israel.” On h…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…izens from any or all ethnic, religious, and genetic backgrounds, a people united by their shared allegiance to the Constitution. In theory the United States could adopt any language as its official language, could take any size or shape, and contain any kind of terrain. By contrast, Native Americans generally have specific homelands tied to specific landforms with unique names from their languages. By creating a sacred homeland, pioneer Mormons m…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…f for the benefit of corrupt but charismatic leaders is as relevant in the United States and Europe—where metal was born and its extreme narratives were shaped—as it is in the Muslim world, where it flowered not long after. If the music can encourage greater introspection among its young fans in the United States and increased communication and understanding between them and their counterparts in the Middle East, metal might one day be credited wi…

Obama’s Jewish Problem

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…t war to mobilize for disarmament. Jewish neocons, fearful that a disarmed United States would be unable to play a central role in protecting Israel, took the leadership in warning against a “Vietnam syndrome.” Security for the United States and Israel, they argued, comes from military strength, and those who seek peace, disarmament, and reconciliation with antagonists are naive, utopian, dangerous, and de facto anti-American or anti-Israel. Spiri…

Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking

By Kathryn Joyce

…in the “the context of the ‘culture wars’ regarding ‘family values’ in the United States, emancipating children from parental authority seems like yet another attempt to undermine the family.” He writes: To a large degree, many religious conservatives distrust elite cultural institutions within the United States and prefer to cast their lot with democratically accountable institutions. These forms of religious populism reflect a deep strand of ant…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ncil. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20 models bills of Project Blitz with the bills they track and she found that 71 bills introduced in 2018 (or carried over from the 2017 state legislative session) are based on the model bills or are similar in intent. Of the bills tracked by Americans United [see bill descriptions in side bar of the original post on…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…mbrella company called Alticor Inc., which does business as Quixtar in the United States and Canada and as Amway Corp. throughout the rest of the world. Whatever name it goes by, Amway is in the process of launching a major comeback in the United States. A Scam by Any Other Name Over the last four decades of the 20th century, Amway became a phenomenally successful company, and is now the second-largest direct sales company in the world. In 2007, A…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…t demand more cooperation in return for the billions of dollars in aid the United States delivers to Israel every year. In 2006, the Iraq Study Group was excoriated by many on the pro-Israel right for making the linkage argument,stating in its final report (pdf): “The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict and regional instability.” The Bush administration largely ignored t…