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How Do We Talk About Islam After Charlie Hebdo?

By Asma Afsaruddin

…s, which sometimes but not always will make it to the front pages of major Western newspapers. More clever op-ed pieces will be written insinuating that it’s not extremist Islam that’s responsible for such barbarities but Islam itself. Other, more level-headed essays will warn of overreacting to violent fringe elements in any religious tradition and warn against besmirching Muslims en masse on the basis of the actions of a few. It’s all too depres…

Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…lem, indeed within all of Israel—which they define as stretching as far as western Iraq. They believe that the signs of the coming of the Messiah have already appeared; it will not be long now. The thousands of years of waiting are about to end. Of course, there are those who wish to hurry the time along and remove the mosques from the Temple Mount in advance of the Messiah’s arrival. The anti-Islamic position of these groups is inflexible and run…

A Tale of Two Photos

By Ira Chernus

…upposed to take that to mean that they must remain part of Serbia, despite Western pressure to declare independence; remaining Serbian is the only moral and manly course. I doubt JFK would have agreed. His foreign policy choices were usually dictated by US political and economic interest, which now—at least according to our foreign policy elite—is now best served by an independent Kosovo, where 90% of the people are Albanians thanks to the US engi…

Gaza Play Sparks Mixed Reaction Among Jews

By Benjamin Weiner

…fail to recognize when their criticism fits into longstanding patterns of Western culture’s abuse of Jews. Churchill’s play is motivated by earnest, if doctrinaire, anger and grief at the carnage created by the Israeli incursion, and the suffering endured under prolonged occupation. But, as a non-Jewish playwright expressing this grief through a series of appropriated and simplified Jewish voices, playing up the bloodthirst, and offering it to a…

10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq

By Haroon Moghul

…lit up by fireworks. The next time you hear about the next great threat to Western civilization, please remember what happened the last time. They say that Americans who came of age after September 11 have known only permanent war. We are not the only ones. For all the Americans and Iraqis who died because a war was prosecuted for no discernible reason, with no plan in mind, with no hope but to topple one regime after another—as if these were not…

How Do Christians, Atheists Compare on Muslim Tolerance?

By Darren E. Sherkat

…using this tragic event to spark Islamophobia. Tolerance is a hallmark of Western democracies. A core tenet of democratic societies is the freedom of religious and political expression, and even the most obnoxious and ridiculous views must be tolerated. Bad ideas are best conquered with good ideas rather than with repression. Yet, the anti-civil liberties orientation of Christian politicians and pundits appears to be shared by several prominent a…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…website : ‘There’s been a disturbing video that’s been making its rounds, promoting a Christian lady who’s a lesbian and Christian at the same time. She’s promoting the virtue of being a happy homosexual Christian. I find this very disturbing and misleading.’ He slams Pastor Pauline Ong of Free Community Church, who identifies herself as a gay believer. Yang calls gay Christians an oxymoron: ‘A homosexual Christian is an oxymoron. You cannot live…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ally participatory, dialogical, and collaborative nature of a contemporary Western culture informed by digital social technologies. It inadvertently reinforces a line between “faith” and “life” that believers now routinely transgress. Bible Mash-Up Where religious institutions and their leaders struggle with this cultural transition, religiously committed innovators fill the breach. In an insightful essay in Cultural Encounters, Benjamin Meyers ex…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…nd makes profits off of returns on investment, interest, and so on—usury. Western civilization’s original usury laws are found in the Bible. The Torah contains several prohibitions against lending money at interest, and the New Testament several condemnations of it. Deuteronomy 23:20-21 is representative, here in the King James (why not): “Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any t…

Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical?

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…is said in the Bible, for instance, we would be forced to abandon most of Western religious art.) All of which is simply to point out that attention to parallels with biblical and ancient Jewish and Christian sources reveal the degree to which “Noah” participates in a long tradition of storytelling about the Flood. As in the Book of the Watchers and Jubilees, so too in Aronofsky’s Noah: new and old elements are interwoven to create stories that s…