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American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…to The Family, the powerful network of evangelical elites embedded in the Washington DC political culture. In its current form, the bill prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” which includes homosexual actions with a minor or while knowingly carrying HIV. The bill also requires jail time for anyone (including friends, family, doctors, and clergy) who fails to report homosexual activity to the authorities. Homosexuality has n…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…ialization in similar ways. Muslim men that I interviewed were on lists at airports. After 9/11, they would go to the airport to fly and all of sudden they couldn’t use the self check-in kiosk with their credit card. Muslim women were not on these lists. Muslim women who wear the hijab had different experiences. They were more likely in airports to be stopped and searched. Muslim women were treated as if they were violating cultural democratic nor…

Can Twitter Be Used to Fight Islamophobia?

By Sarah Posner

…nner of the #MuslimRage contest is: RT @lsal92: Lost your kid Jihad at the airport. Can’t yell for him. #MuslimRage —Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) September 18, 2012 Gawker shares chilling images of #muslimrage from AP.gaw.kr/OxBFcu —benwedeman (@bencnn) September 18, 2012 On a plane and people mishearing me when I say I am a *tourist*. #muslimrage —Welshy(@WelshInGaza) September 17, 2012 And don’t miss Paul Waldman and Gabe Arana’s terrific parody…

Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…me for the service, got into the rental with family and drove back to the airport. And I was left with questions. Who told him about the botched abortion? How was it explained? What did he think at first? Was the abortion self-induced or performed by a quack? Did she die of a hemorrhage or infection? What did the rabbi say at the funeral? What would I have done were I the officiant standing at an open grave with a bereft family? I think of these…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…icion that I would be more like myself and not so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. I had stuck with this plan—umrah any time of the year, the further from the three sacred months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, sh…

The Morning After

By Amina Wadud

…est brother to it just last year). When I got the news, during the fast, a number of my friends told me just go ahead and stop fasting to address it. But, I thought if I do not get on top of it, this may be my last Ramadan; and I just wanted to finish what I had started. I’m glad I did, but here’s the thing. To stabilize the blood sugar, pre-diabetics and diabetics have to eat smaller meals dispersed through out the day. I started it yesterday but…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…s. Arrangements were made for housing, food, legal defense, meeting space, airport rides and coordinated T-shirts. A sophisticated communications program was developed that involved press releases, Facebook, texting alerts, Twitter, and YouTube. The UUA Moderator created a Facebook page calling people to go to Arizona. The UUA President announced at the GA that he was going to Phoenix for the Day of Non-Compliance and it was posted on the denomina…

You Had to See This One Coming

By Julie Ingersoll

…is, most traveling men would not want Barney Frank to pat them down at the airport security checkpoint,” LaBarbera said “Neither would it be fair to assign Ellen DeGeneres to pat down female travelers.” Actually, more precisely, LaBarbera used the word “normal” to describe the straight TSA agents not the straight passengers, which raises a further complicating question: who would be appropriate to pat down Barney Frank and Ellen DeGeneres? I wonde…

Profiling of Muslims Produced No Terror Leads, NYPD Concedes

By Sarah Posner

…D officers known as “rakers” overheard two Pakistani men complaining about airport security policies that they believed unfairly singled out Muslims. They bemoaned what they saw as the nation’s anti-Muslim sentiment since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Galati said police were allowed to collect that information because the men spoke Urdu, a fact that could help police find potential terrorists in the future. “I’m seeing Urdu. I’m seeing them identify…

Isaac Asimov’s Niece Covers the Rapture

By Lauri Lebo

…than this earth,” the 36-year-old trucker told a knot of reporters who outnumbered visitors at the grimy hub of worldwide speculation about the world’s end at 6 p.m. Saturday. Neither radio employees nor radio minister Harold Camping were in evidence Saturday morning in the station parking lot on Hegenberger Road near the Oakland Airport. In the meantime, CNNMoney reports that Family Radio, which has a total worth of $72 million, received $18 mil…