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The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

…likely heroes: Moses is a genealogical hybrid of sorts who ends up fleeing Egypt; and Rahab is a prostitute who helps save Israel. Jesus himself chooses ordinary men to be his disciples, including a tax collector. When Diana/Wonder Woman finally fights and kills General Ludendorff it seems that victory has been won, but to her surprise, the war does not end. The war’s continuation defies Diana’s central belief: that Ludendorff is none other than A…

Women in the Mosque

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…one: she has several degrees in Islamic studies, has studied the Qur’an in Egypt, and also led highly-controversial mixed-gender prayers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other countries. While I like Nomani’s zeal for change, I agree more with the path taken by Elghobashy. The adage about catching more flies with honey than with gall comes to mind immediately, despite the unflattering comparisons. It seems more realistic: viewpoints usually chan…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…rs of other minority faiths. Take for example, the Baha’i and the Copts of Egypt, who are relegated to second-class status; the Ahmadiyya Community, a large Muslim minority victimized by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws; or revisionist legal scholars like Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, author of Islam and the Secular State. Their advocacy for equal treatment of the heterodox, if it succeeds, will improve the lot of unbelievers in the Muslim-majority countries…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…e around the globe reminds us what is at stake. Whether it is the Copts of Egypt, the Ahmadiyya of Pakistan, or the unregistered Protestants of China, self-identifying religious minorities can, to varying degrees, suffer the consequences of being deemed inauthentic by decree. During the French debate on the veil, President Sarkozy declared, “The burqa is not a religious sign,” suggesting that women had no religious right to don it. If the ideal of…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…ported along a major ancient near-eastern thoroughfare from Mesopotamia to Egypt. The one mention in the New Testament can be found in that most cryptic of texts, Revelation, and that one reference is none too clear, only suggesting a gathering of kings for the purposes of battle “at the place that in Hebrew is called Harmagedon” (Rev 16:16, NRSV). But Americans love apocalypses, so in the hands of late nineteenth and early twentieth century pre-m…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…al territory, it remains under a crippling blockade. And don’t forget that Egypt’s dictator, Sisi, has closed his side of the border too, essentially trapping well over a million people. No people in the world would tolerate living like that. (We Americans most certainly wouldn’t.) Is this what would become of the West Bank, too—a nominally self-governing state with no control of its borders, at the whims of Israel and Jordan? So with two-states d…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…1994 International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt. It states that abortion should not be promoted as a method of family planning. UNFPA fully subscribes to this and does not provide support for abortion services. It works to prevent abortion through family planning, and to help countries provide services for women suffering from the complications of unsafe abortion.” But that hasn’t stopped the religious right from a…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…eople were Jews. Because the government of the nations that conquered them—Egypt and Babylonia and Syria and the Hellenistic Empire of Alexander the Great and Rome—were all religious empires. When people were conquered by Rome, they were required to worship the Roman gods in addition to their own; the only group that dissented from that were Jews. Romans decided it was more trouble to try to force them to worship their gods than to accommodate the…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…pect the stranger in your land, “because you were strangers in the Land of Egypt,” is much more frequently repeated in the Bible than the injunction against eating unleavened bread. An Israeli group working to honor the ‘stranger,’ Rabbis for Human Rights, has just published its Human Rights Supplement to the Seder. This group and its activism is surely worthy of an American media story. I have no doubt that the 400 American and Israeli Rabbis aff…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…the equivalent of the cost of one full-course meal locally. I remember in Egypt that it was actually about 50 cents USD! In some places they still actually distribute it in food stuff — particularly rice, in Asia. I, like some Muslims, like to pay this amount directly to a family or individual in need. Others like to pay to local institutions, which in the U.S. would be the mosques or Islamic centers. The mosques then distribute to the members of…