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The New Craze That’s Sweeping The Nation: Killing Granny

By Daniel Schultz

…of “secularists and atheists,” as if there were no moral ground between Bishop Lefebvre and Peter Singer. We might also agree with Steve Benen that it is remarkable that this intellectual thug will probably be back on MSNBC spewing the same crackpot theories in days, if not hours. But most of all, we will note, as does Fred Ward, that if you have to set yourself up as better than an elder-murdering Islamocommunist Nazi regime, you have set a pret…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…ough the charitable support of someone in the crowd, or donated by the tea-shop owner – its just another part of the Egypt I have always known. But the Egypt I have known would never have seen people feeling free to voice their criticisms of the president so strongly or openly – that type of attitude certainly existed prior to this uprising, but was limited to private meetings, or outside of Egypt. In that Square, while it is still the same countr…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…policy. They compile that into a guilt-by-association Powerpoint and then shop it to reporters.” These individuals include, said Khan, Frank Gaffney, who issues baseless warnings to members of Congress about “creeping shari’ah;” Paul Sperry, co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, which claimed that the Council on American Islamic Relations had infiltrated Capitol Hill by placing interns as spies; Kenneth Timmerman, a conservative writer and activist…

Huckabee Says Obama is “Pretending to Be a Christian”

By Carlos Wilton

…er of individual choice, the act of a repentant heart. The next step is to shop one’s spiritual seedling around to various local churches, in search of the one with the best garden soil in which to plant it. Should the seedling fail to flourish, it can always be transplanted elsewhere. (Or not. Some try to go it alone, expecting their plant to thrive in the light afforded by the flickering image of an evangelist on a television screen.) In time, b…

Whom Will She Wreck?: The Real Sarah Palin Question

By Anthea Butler

…Palin threw in a good line here and there, as when she addressed her poor numbers: “Polls? They’re for strippers and cross-country skiers!” While the media continues to focus on whether or not she’s going to run, Palin is pulling a classic populist move, solidifying her base of Teavangelicals making sure that they’re 100% on board with her program to oust President Obama and wreck shop with the Republican Primaries. The question isn’t is she or i…

GOP Education Bill Would Radically Rewrite Religious Freedom and License Virtually Any Form of Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…s seemed sharply divided at December’s oral arguments in the Colorado cake shop case. However the Court rules, it is clear that religious exemptions will remain a matter of legal and political controversy for years to come. It’s unclear whether every component of the PROSPER Act’s radically reimagined conception of religious freedom will ever become law, since they, along with other controversial provisions, will likely be tempered by moderates in…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…very specific physical needs. It’s a soul-satisfying experience to fill a shopping cart with items from some imagined shopping list. The tactile experience of handing over blankets or baby booties warms donors’ hearts, more than just sending cash. We may not be able to look into the grateful eyes of the far-off recipients, but we can imagine the experience. What is money, after all, but an abstraction? Cash is but a rectangle of rag-paper imbued…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coffee took off is because religious Muslims preferred the beverage for…

Whom God Will Protect

By Shabana Mir

…le and Leilani Neumann, proprietors of the astutely-named Monkey Mo Coffee Shop in Weston, Wisconsin, were breakaway members of the Lighthouse Pentecostal Church. They believed that physical illness was due to sin, and that the cure was prayer and asking God for forgiveness. Madeline (11) grew pale and weak over a period of months. Her parents thought that her weakness over her last two weeks was due to impending puberty. I suppose puberty is the…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…o…” And here I anticipate a word: enjoy, appreciate, understand, know… any number of verbs will do, but none is the word given. The word is: purchase. As in: “To revive the beauty of Palestinian tradition so it could be available for all to purchase.” Even here, I quickly overcome my own negative response to the phrasing. Of course, I said to myself after a moment, the word should be “purchase,” and not “enjoy” or “appreciate” or even “know.” Beca…