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The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…ouellebecq’s The Elementary Particles, “describing the waves of cultural anxiety and sexual insecurity” felt by a white European teacher whose intellectual achievements mean nothing to his classes; his crush on a female student is unreturned, because she prefers the attention of a “a macho African student,” a “baboon.” Christopher Caldwell has also written a disquieting book, which anyone interested in Islam or Europe simply must read. As a column…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…s themselves who are struggling to redefine their religious identities in the European context. Caldwell has the right subject in mind: Europe is undergoing a cultural and political evolution. Islam and Muslims, however, are a catalyst—not the cause. Pitching a fixed Europe against a fixed Islam is playing the game of fundamentalists who use exactly the same discourse. Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, after all, is structured around…

Sacred Real Estate: What Makes Washington’s WWII Memorial So Dreadful?

By Michael A. Elliott

…tes into World War II, and of the eventual victory of the Allies over the Axis of Germany and Japan. But for most Americans on December 7, 1941, none of those things were evident. I was thinking about my grandfather and his football game earlier this month, when I walked, for the first time, through the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington. Dedicated in 2004, the Memorial is a broad plaza of fountains, pillars, and sculpted wre…

Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End

By Anthea Butler

…where he has placed so much hope in reviving the Church. Recent news of sexual abuse cases in Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands suggest that much like the scandal uncovered by the Globe reporters, the roots are deep, the crimes unimaginable, the secrecy and subversion of blame epidemic. The Pope’s brother even admitted to slapping children, though not molesting them. As Andrew Sullivan remarked in a recent blog post, “wh…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…wsuit that was filed against him in 2002. And last year, the San Antonio (TX) Express News reported that Miller “was forced to resign two years ago after a (credible) claim that he sexually abused (a St. Louis teenager), but was sent to his superiors to live and work for the church in Rome. SNAP, and now Dawkins, et al are frequently criticized as “too angry” or “too radical.” Their insistence that the Catholic Church and its leaders have no more…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…who is a lesbian, as being a tool of the “homosexual agenda” and a “homosexual activist.” The Campaign for Michigan Families is the political arm of the AFA of Michigan, similar to another AFA effort in Iowa, where its Iowa for Freedom (headed by Huckabee’s 2008 Iowa state campaign chair, Bob Vander Plaats) is waging a campaign to oust state Supreme Court judges over their votes declaring the state’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Vander Plaa…

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…leader” for Out4Life, told me, “The deck is really stacked against them [ex-offenders].” During reentry, ex-offenders face problems securing three major things: “safe and affordable housing, gainful employment, and abuse services.” But with funding from the government, the Out4Life program, Americans United’s Luchenitser wrote to me in an email, “could raise serious Constitutional problems.” Content on its Web site, he continued, suggests “Out4Li…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…isters. There is no need to separate some “sisters” from all sisters. For example, I admire Jean Stokan, longtime Pax Christi USA leader who is now heading the Sisters of Mercy of the America Institute Justice Team. I have the deepest respect for Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of Dignity USA, the Catholic LGBT organization. I rejoice that Erin Saiz Hanna, another tireless worker, runs the Women’s Ordination Conference. I take my hat…

Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s

By The Editors

…ating the common good in society. Beck was moved by Greer’s rather moderate statement to respond, on his Premier Radio Networks show, thusly: This leads to death camps. A Jew, of all people, should know that. This is exactly the kind of talk that led to the death camps in Germany. Put humankind and the common good first. This is one of those statements—and Beck is one of those figures—that only comedy can confront. It doesn’t exist on the plane of…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…and then they dropped out completely. I also wrote a chapter on relations between soldiers and chaplains that ended up working far better as a stand-alone article than as a chapter in the book. It came out in Church History in March of 2009. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? I can think of three right away. First, this is a book that looks closely at men and women involved in a military effort and there seems to be an…