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Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…formal rally of the 2024 presidential campaign season at the Waco Regional Airport. The location is, in theory, all about the positive Trump vibes in Texas. As his campaign staff wrote, “It is undisputed that Texas is Trump Country after electing 37 Trump Endorsed Candidates and recent polling among Texas primary voters.” Indeed, Waco boasts the largest Baptist university in the world, which should come in handy as Trump will be forced to court re…

Weeks After Turkey’s Failed Coup, Thousands Have Been Arrested Over a Book

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ns that they might be associated with the Gulen network. Within weeks, the numbers had swelled to the tens of thousands. The vast network of Gulen-related schools was closed. All university professors, regardless of the institution in which they taught, were constrained from traveling outside the country. Every university dean in the country was arrested or suspended. Ordinary prisoners were set free in order to make more room in the jails for any…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…e local police department. Ramadan + deportation: Bonus points on Pakistan International Airlines. Which, like fasting breath (when you don’t eat for a long time, your breath starts to kick), nobody wants to get near. See also safe distance. Namauzea: Namaz is the Persian word for ‘prayer,’ and is traditionally used by all the peoples who were introduced to Islam by Persians or Persophones, which is kind of like a talking cat. (Think Bravo’s Shahs…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…ke two students seated in the vehicle’s path. Their victims, dressed as handcuffed Tibetan Buddhist monks, were covered in fake blood and held a poster-sized photo of the Dalai Lama. A few feet away, a redheaded man dressed as a soldier chased another faux monk. As the red-robed monk fell to the ground, the “soldier” waved a small Chinese flag and “whipped” the monk with a black rubber tube. Protesters ate it up while the nearby crowd of China sup…

Moral Mondays: The Battle For Justice Cannot Be Waged Only in the Courts

By Kareem Crayton

…July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of a canceled flight out of RDU Airport. I used the opportunity to travel into downtown Raleigh to observe one of the early Moral Monday rallies at the State Capitol. The gathering was ostensibly called to protest the legislature’s newly gerrymandered district map – among the most tortured in the nation. I expected to find a group of committed, passionate citizens (mostly people of color) voicing their di…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…rans person, I already experience a great deal of scrutiny passing through airport security, routinely enduring invasive pat-downs and questions about my body and clothing. It is not always apparent to TSA that I am also Muslim, but if it is known then those questions could take a much darker turn. One of my children is also queer-identified and travels frequently to a Muslim-majority country. After hearing of cases of American citizens, like Muha…

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…of the biggest challenges we face. In fact, I’m writing these words in an airport after spending two days with people who are trying to provide some of the needed structure. Competing for funding … working in competitive and fragmented silos … or shockingly apathetic and complacent … that pretty much defines the status quo. That’s why I and so many others are working to build a new reality, a new possibility. It’s not easy; otherwise, it would ha…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…arters, including from his family. Camping had six living children, 28 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren, and none of them believed him, according to the Christian Post. His wife stood by him, though. And he had a few followers who were so committed they gave up their jobs, their savings, their social standings to join the effort to warn others of the impending end. One explained “if you boil everything down it’s really trusting the Bible….

“My Scientology Movie” Pokes the Hornet’s Nest

By Gordon Haber

…ch as when Rathbun is ambushed and verbally abused by church members at an airport, a form of attack they call “squirrel-busting.” But there isn’t much sense here that Scientology is actually a church in decline. The Internet has made it harder to attract credulous new members, and the spate of highly critical works suggests that its influence in Hollywood is waning. Early in the documentary Theroux claims that, “for years my dream was that I migh…

Thank You, Ben Carson, For Your Latest Anti-Muslim Rant

By Haroon Moghul

…putation as Americans who choose to be, happen to be, or are identified by airport security as Muslims, is pretty much in the tank. Like the septic tank. We’re so far down that calling us mentally ill is actually a step up, a hand reaching down to us in the muck. First, it might generate sympathy. You know, it’s not our fault we’re this way, we just have a genetic predisposition to Islam, which of course is “a religion of domination” according to…