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Komen & Islamophobia, A New Conservative MO?

By Hussein Rashid

…onally protected illegal, you smear the organizations with the taint of criminality. This allows the opponents of individual rights and liberties to vilify law-abiding citizens, and try people in the court of public opinion. For example, a CNN article states: ”The move is clearly connected to attempts by Republicans in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood,” the organization said in a statement. “In responding to questions about its decision, the…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…SP’s role as a collector of forensic evidence that can be used in a potential trial of the perpetrators at the Hague. Here are a few excerpts: One eyewitness has claimed that GoS-aligned forces are putting dead bodies, in some cases, in what appear to be white plastic tarps or other body bags. Another eyewitness alleges that people were taken and killed by SAF troops and police officers in front of their houses near the Episcopal Church of Sudan (…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…incite someone to murder Rafiq Tagi. In December seven prominent intellectuals called on the European Union to investigate the circumstances of Tagi’s death. Among them were Taslima Nasrin, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie—and in mid-December the European Parliament condemned the murder. But one of the most powerful condemnations of Tagi’s assassination, and of ‘death fatwas’ in general, has come from a prominent Iranian cleric now living in e…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…a sense of fear and a desire to control the disorder, revealing a fundamental misunderstanding of the significance of what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring.” Beyond Radical Islam vs. Secularism Many in the West, and even specialists of Middle East history and politics, have still not recognized the sheer magnitude of what has transpired in the past year. In this short time, no less than three decades-long authoritarian dictatorships have b…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…o is also the leader of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went halfway across the United States to find out what God was speaking to me. And it clarified a lot of things.” She came back to Pickens County and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who played a central preaching role at The Response in…

How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe

By Joanna Brooks

…tual power and meaning. An expansive cosmology, a radical take on the eternal potential of the human soul, a literal view of the gathering of the tribes and other last days phenomena—these have all been part of the Mormon worldview. During the middle decades of the twentieth century, LDS Church leaders attempted to discipline and systematize Mormon doctrine through a process known as “correlation” that gave contemporary Mormonism most of its curri…

Cain’s Twirling Ideas

By Sarah Posner

…he Republican base not realize there are a few end-times theories about Libya and the Arab Spring? Because if you’re going to go down in flames, you might as well, you know, go all out….

Lessons From a Spiritual Failure

By Joanna Brooks

…ook, I didn’t set out to fail: I set out to write about reading the spiritual classics and undertaking one-month trials of spiritual practices they recommend. But my year ended up being a difficult one. I could never pull it all together. When it was all over, I confessed to my editor: “I have not managed to succeed.” And she convinced me to call the project “Flunking Sainthood.” So this ended up being a project about failure instead. It was very…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…normal circumstances, we view these words as speaking about our own spiritual commitments—but we aren’t under normal circumstances. Kol Nidrei reminds us that though we make commitments under duress, ultimately we are accountable only to the higher values of Justice and Righteousness. These words were said by Jews who were forced to convert under pain of death in Spain hundreds of years ago, and more recently by our gay brothers and sisters who co…

Bachmann’s “Dangerous” Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ngs of David Noebel, “I went on to serve on the board of directors with Summit Ministries.” Noebel, the Christian anti-communism crusader who until recently led Summit, teaches that the “Christian worldview” is superior to other “worldviews,” including secular humanism, Islam, and Marxism-Leninism, which are on a coliision course with Christianity. Bachmann, however, did not serve on the board of Summit Ministries, according to its current execut…