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Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…as put into the service of the judgments claiming sharia as their source, that is to say that the legal system that led to the application of hudud punishments was not based on traditional Islamic jurisprudence. Yet in a nation where rule of law has been repeatedly compromised by corruption, military dictatorships, and unequal access, the concept of religiously based law has a great deal of appeal to many people as a theoretically incorruptible an…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…e prayed for anyone considering a run in his district to “lose interest.” That “that hedge of thorns has protected me all these years,” Webster continued, even when his political opponents referred to him and allies as “conservative, gun-toting Bible thumpers.” He claims that “pride is so destructive,” yet seems quite proud that his “hedge of thorns” has made his political career a success. Razing Ruth, another anti-biblical patriarchy blog, descr…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…ating abortion, a position I as a Catholic do not share. But it is to say that from what I can tell the institutional Catholic Church subsidizes this event so significantly that truth in advertising suggests a name change. I did see one marcher wearing a yarmulke on the Metro going home, but this crowd is Catholic. Clothes alone are a reliable indicator. Parish sweatshirts and Catholic college jackets are the outfits of choice on a cold day. One g…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…n back for Christ” and who, while running for president, proudly declared that “what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Joel Beinin of Stanford University, writing at Middle East Channel, also notes how the Brotherhood was late to the protests, debunking the American right’s insistence that the Brotherhood is behind the protests, and therefore that toppling Mubarek would mean shari’ah law and all that: The Musl…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…ebate among serious Muslim scholars about that.” As far as fear-mongering that that Muslims seek to supplant the Constitution with shari’ah, Khan noted, “there is room for individual religious practice under the First Amendment and that includes personal and private contracts which can be based on any manner of law including religious law as long as it is consistent with local and state law and the U.S. Constitution.” Jewish law can apply to prenu…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…e made in the committee hearing on the bill last week. “If you look at the code, these codes are dealing with illegal acts. Now, abortion is a legal act. So this has got nothing to do with abortion.” Here is the bill in its entirety: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. Th…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…f rapture. The Edge’s epic guitar riff complements the moment. ESPN knows what that threaded riff does to people like me when accompanying emotionally piqued football highlights. Over the top of that, the pop prophet Bono speaks: “If history means anything, the world as we know it is about to change.” Melodrama? Maybe, but so are many of the Episcopal Masses that I’ve attended. One of the things that make this quadrennial tournament religious is t…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…robust expression of adult sexuality might be good for the soul). Beyond that, there is the fact that the Catholic Church itself is one of the all-time leading instigators and purveyors of anti-Jewish sentiment, though this circumstance has been blessedly altered over the past half century. But, again in the words of my congregant, himself a passionate participant in Catholic-Jewish conversation, these new circumstances have given rise to a confu…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

…which has not yet produced one single legitimate peer reviewed paper. But that doesn’t keep its proponents and gullible lawmakers from whining that science is mean to them. As NCSE points out, an example of this supposed persecution was exemplified in Ben Stein’s cynical piece of schlock Expelled. (My review of the movie is here.) In addition to Texas, another anti-evolution bill was also introduced this month in Florida. HB 1854 would require “…

Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?

By Eric Reitan

…therapy. The account isn’t one that Browning invented—it’s far older than that. What Browning did was use the metaphor of psychotherapy to elucidate this old and profound understanding of how the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus could have a truly redemptive power in the world. Browning begins by noting that all of us desire to be judged as valuable by some standard of achievement—something that earlier theologians called “works…