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Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…f’s story first came to me over the BBC World Service when the attack made international news. During his subsequent persecution by the authorities, he had been in communication with some of my colleagues and friends with the Bengali freethought website Mukto-Mona and the D.C.-based Center for Inquiry, with whose help we eventually connected. Although he said that there were some things he could not discuss, Asif embraced the opportunity to explai…

The Zeitgeist Debate

By Sarah Posner

…nkers” controlling the economy, theories with anti-Semitic roots (replace “international” with “Jewish” — although the film doesn’t describe any of its villains as being Jewish). At one point the film flashes a scare quote attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws”— oft recycled on right-wing conspiracy websites, even though there’s no proof that Rothschild ever said it. Simple G…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…“offense of homosexuality.” That bill languished after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but was reintroduced last month. Mr. Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations asserting the violation of international law. The suit says that Mr. Lively’s actions resulted in the…

Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

It’s called Measure 755. For Oklahoma, it forbids the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts. As of the time of writing, it has passed, winning nearly 70% of the vote. As an American Muslim, and a citizen of New York, I am amused, concerned, fascinated and, oddly, given hope. Let me go in that order. Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water”; the texts that normatively define a moral life and the means to God and heaven in…

‘High Church’ Chronicles: Will Anglican Blessing of Medical Marijuana Open the Door to a Royal Strain?

By Becky Garrison

…gland has changed its investment policy in regard to medical cannabis, the International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) speculates on its blog whether “the Queen, if not the Royal Family in general, [can] become one of the best ‘cannabis brands’ in the world,” as well as what implication this could have for the Church of England given the Queen (or King) of England is the titular head of the church. Crossing over the pond, the U.S. Episcopal…

The Double Life of the War Criminal

By Laurie Patton

…dzic. Karadzic had just been captured after spending thirteen years on the international most-wanted list for his role in genocide and ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars. As it turns out Karadzic had been hiding in plain view in Belgrade as “Dr. Dragan Dabic,” an alternative healer and therapist who wrote frequently for “Healthy Life” Magazine in Belgrade and appeared often on the New Age speaking circuit. Karadzic was a poet and psychiatrist…

Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…charismatics. The term “office” isn’t used, despite the fact that Kelly’s International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (ICAL) clearly believes there is such a thing as the “office” of Apostle, as defined by Wagner who distinguished between the gift and the office of apostle (see p. 43 of Mark Pfeifer’s book Apostles Then & Now on the ICAL website). ICAL also clearly states that, “only those who have previously been recognized as having the gift a…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…sentative of the Dalai Lama, says more than 1,000 gathered in front of the United Nations’ office to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion in Tibet against China’s People’s Liberation Army. “The emotions are much stronger—the sense of concern, the sense of anxiety, the urgency,” Tsering says. “You have your fellow beings torturing themselves… So when this is happening in Tibet, of course people here feel very intense and strongly. But what we…

A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

By Frederick Clarkson

…nti-LRA campaign including the armies of three countries and backed by the United States. The Enough Project of the Washington DC think tank Center for American Progress has worked tirelessly to stop the LRA and bring peace to the region. But co-founder John Prendergast told Religion Dispatches that Kony has refused numerous peace proposals, and he believes that: The only way to bring an end to the suffering he causes is to support the military ef…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ere invited to Warsaw by a British Christian Lobby organization called the International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counseling Choice (IFTCC), which presents itself as an aid organization whose stated goal is to support people who want to leave the “LGBT lifestyle.” This three-day event, the group’s 9th annual conference, was somewhat euphemistically titled: “Turning the Tide: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Issues of Sexuality and Gender.” P…