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5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

…personally religious, proud to identify as an Egyptian, an Arab, and a Muslim. Because Egypt never went through the radical secularization that Turkey went through from the 1920s onward, it is unlikely Egypt will ever become that Westernized of a society, with such stark oppositions in public lifestyle between the religious and the non-religious. But Westernization is not a precondition for democracy, nor is there only one form of secularism in a…

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Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

…t would lead to a new free market Christianity political power base in the Western United States. In less than a decade, Haggard built one of the most influential megachurches in the nation. Not Everybody Loves a Comeback Story Today, Haggard and his wife Gayle jet set nearly every weekend to speak at emergent churches across the nation with a well-worn script about forgiveness and redemption. “Out of Hebrews I know I am forgiven past, present and…

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Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

…n get control of the cockpit again. Trump made clear what it meant to save Western Civilization. In a nutshell, it is to resurrect and defend “our Christian heritage,” and protect children from a media culture of mockery. Trump will tell the media culture, “you’re fired!” TRUMP: Yet, our media culture often mocks and demeans people of faith. And you understand that. All the time I hear from concerned parents how much harder it is for a Christian f…

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Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’

…odern Era, in Landes’ telling, brought the “four humiliations of modernity—Western superiority, Israel’s existence, women’s liberation, and globalization,” resulting in the bloody, triumphalist fantasies of apocalyptic jihad. While apocalyptic jihad does indeed pose a serious threat, Landes’ narrative reads like warmed-over Bernard Lewis. While we can’t completely dismiss this narrative (Christian apocalyptic texts, from Revelations to Left Behind…

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Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto

…he explains his intended reader. “I am male, and am rooted ancestrally in Western Europe, and am speaking largely to a Western European male audience.” His emphasis on a common volkgeist made up of people of European descent echoes another social theorist whose life and work shaped the 20th century: “What makes a people or, to be more correct, a race is not language, but blood.” Hitler’s emphasis on the German volk and their ties to the homeland…

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Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

…, this tension is about a fundamental disagreement over how to engage with Western modernity, arising from a Christian part of the world that has never been wholly Western. It’s a conflict that also highlights Orthodoxy’s ongoing problem with “rogue holy men,” who seem to inevitably take the side of the most difficult and destructive. Again, to be clear, the Orthodox Christian world’s most senior bishops have universally—whatever other disagreemen…

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Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

…ced a policy imposing a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families in two western townships, reinforcing the perception of ethnic cleansing in Burma. This alarming policy is the only known legal restriction of its kind today against a specific religious group. An AP report on May 27 cited Aung San Suu Kyi’s cautiously nuanced position. She told reporters that “if true, this is against the law.” The Nobel Laureate asserted that she hadn’t heard de…

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‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

…lf in the “defender” role. Whether he portrays himself as the “defender of western civilization,” “defender of the Christian,” or even his continued defense of white supremacist groups, Trump’s penchant for casting himself as the messianic savior of whiteness allows him to remain beloved by his most ardent supporters and play upon their anxieties over a changing demographic landscape. In other words, Trump has turned the Jay-Z line, “I’m anti-Sant…

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Rest in Peace, Sam Huntington

…tes and to a lesser extent in Europe, but also—perhaps surprisingly—in non-Western parts of the world. In China, scores of books were published about what they called “the Huntington thesis,” which impressed the Chinese in part because it gave their own culture a prominent place in world politics. In the Middle East, “the clash of civilization” thesis was regarded as common sense by Islamic radicals whose own outlook on world politics was surprisi…

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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

…nal Commission for Public Performances in the Dominican Republic announced today that they were banning a September 13th Miley Cyrus concert for, among other things, promoting lesbian sex.” “The National Commission for Public Performances in the exercise of the powers given by the Constitution of the Republic through Regulation 824 of Law Number 1951Article 4306 – the purpose of which is to prevent public performances that offend the morals, good…

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