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Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…angry, vicious attack was related to religion, since the enemies in their military assault were satirists who had portrayed the Prophet Mohammad in cartoons. This is the kind of insult to religion that would offend all Muslims, not just the angry ones like the Kouachi brothers. It is one thing to make fun of real life leaders, quite another to belittle someone’s faith. The cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are analogous to the ethnic cartoons of Jews in…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, or some form of evangelical, 33 percent of military chaplains are members of one of those groups, according to Pentagon statistics. And the disparity could soon widen: Data from the Air Force indicate that 87 percent of those seeking to become chaplains are enrolled at evangelical divinity schools. The source of the problem is fairly obvious—more liberal-leaning mainline denominations have an uneasy, if not contenti…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…draft this year, and randomly selected candidates will have to report to a military recruitment office in order to be screened for suitability for military service. According to the Lithuania Tribune, that screening includes a psychological test that can identify whether or not someone is gay. The paper states that one of the questions “allegedly enquires whether the candidate likes picking flowers and whether he has ever considered a career in th…

Where In The World Is Barack Hussein Obama?

By Haroon Moghul

…dly, illogically, embarrassingly, and uselessly, he has suspended a single military exercise, and cut off economic aid. Not military aid. What? How? On what logic? It is the Egyptian military that has struck back, in a kind of Star Wars: Episode V, except this is an incompetent deep state lashing out. (What future awaits Egypt is clear enough—a bombing of its consulate in Libya, and some 24 police officers attacked and killed in the Sinai, near th…

What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

By Eboo Patel

…matter. Hulsether names civil liberties, material conflicts, and American military campaigns abroad as some examples that fit her list of priorities. She writes, “Appeals to ‘interfaith’ often prioritize projects for recognition of such identities over attention to systemic forms of material and social inequality” and “interfaith programs always provide means to other ends.” All in all, it is a well-articulated view of what might be called a prog…

The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…dom and Justice Party is largely made up of independent Muslim Brotherhood members, and younger Brothers have sought to form other political parties. There is also an indication that the current military rulers are forming alliances with old Muslim Brotherhood leaders in an attempt to provide popular legitimacy to the regime and to insure the Brotherhood’s electoral success. It’s worth noting that the rally I attended last weekend was focused on c…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…Iraqi government and its Shi’ite militia that were at the forefront of the military actions against Mosul. They felt that the liberating military forces did little to try to preserve the city in their eagerness to destroy ISIS, and that the Shi’a liberators treated the local Sunnis like “dirt.” “They think that we are all ISIS sympathizers,” they told me. Many were, especially at the beginning of ISIS control, when ISIS was seen as a Sunni vanguar…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…, nor was it done to limit my rights and opportunities to serve within the military if my God was ill-favored. Dog tags serve to identify the soldier, and religion is recorded upon those tags so that proper services fitting with their beliefs may be rendered in the event that they sacrifice their lives for the service of this nation and what it stands for. If a Catholic soldier lays dying, every effort is made to provide that soldier with a priest…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…s exhumed the graves under the supervision of an Israeli archeologist. The number of skeletons taken out of the site numbered between one thousand and fifteen hundred. According to Gideon Sulaimani, an archeologist who worked at the site before the court injunction went into effect “They call this an archeological excavation but it’s really a clearing-out, an erasure of the Muslim past.” In 1984, George Orwell’s great satire of totalitarian regime…

God and Prop. 8: New Poll Holds Surprises on Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…workplace protection and allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military (about three-quarters support both), Latino Protestants are less enthusiastic with only 59 percent supporting workplace protections and 50 percent supporting open service in the military. The two groups were largely divided over gay adoption as well with 51 percent of Latino Catholics in support, but only 27 percent of Latino Protestants in support. “You see closer…