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State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

…from holding public office. Rep. Omar, originally a refugee immigrant from Somalia, is the first woman of color to hold federal elective office from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women in Congress. The threat against Rep. Omar was particularly ill-considered in that she represents the 5th Congressional District, which includes the city of Minneapolis, the epicenter of the protests arising from the death of George Floyd at the hands of the…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…mporarily block entry visas from seven countries—Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya—for 30 days as part of a broader security review of visa-admission programs, after which permanent visa bans could be enacted for those countries and others.” Take this transparent attempt to privilege Judeo-Christian faith traditions in immigration policy and combine it with the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, which Trump has promised to si…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…es where the rule of law and democratic culture are at best fragile — from Somalia and Yemen to Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Mali, and the Central African Republic. It is also true that transitions from authoritarian to looser forms of governance are fraught with high political risk, as in ex-Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq. Moreover, most of these radical groups, including the “Islamic State,” have a record of cynical gangsterism, routinely taking…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…Shabaab cell launched the organization’s first terrorist attack outside of Somalia. Two blasts were set off, one in front of the screen where the match was being broadcast. Ndugwa and his friends felt the blasts. Injured, but not mortally so, they ran to the nearest hospital. He explained what took place in the aftermath: When I left hospital the following day, I watched the news. The attack had claimed over 80 lives and left 76 injured. Investiga…

Fighting Terrorism Without Drones?

By Michael Schulson

…rcutting the ideological and recruiting appeal of jihadists in places like Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.” The effort will be called the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resistance,” which sounds like the kind of name the U.N. would give to, say, an anti-malaria effort, or a campaign against STIs. But that’s the point. “The initiative,” reports the Times, is “based on other global funds to combat AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.” So, yes, t…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

…base of Botswana’s Export Development and Investment Authority, as well as Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites, and the Sudanese stock exchange. They’ve threatened to take down key websites in any African country in which LGBT people are subject to imprisonment or death for expressing their sexual orientation or gender identity publicly. Last week, they went a step further and posted a message on the website of Uganda’s Prime Minister…

Christianity Today counsels “patience” on Uganda’s anti-gay law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…where Christians are persecuted like North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. Everywhere they are persecuted, Christians are working to change the system, through prayer, protest, or other actions. Yet, they would deny this kind of action to gay and lesbian people simply because we should take our time and stop and “listen” to why the people in Uganda want to kill or imprison us? Believe me, we’ve heard their reasons and they smack of misund…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…ise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington DC. Originally from Somalia, the most dysfunctional state in contemporary Africa, Hirsi Ali is best known in the U.S. for her bestselling 2007 autobiography, Infidel, which received a great deal of praise, and not a small amount of criticism. “Hirsi Ali is more a hero among Islamophobes than Islamic women,” wrote one reviewer at the time. In a recent Newsweek cover story, reprinted in The Dail…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…rage sexual relations and childbearing outside of the marital bond, and to promote the institution of marriage as the best environment for children. The article on religion is noteworthy for affirming a positive “Right to a Religion”—in contrast to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, the standard in accepted international instruments. Here again, the Declaration cites the UDHR but omits its crucial inclusion of the “freedom to change” be…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…to The New Atheists. Of them, he admires most the remarkable refugee from Somalia, Holland, and Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. On their second meeting, recounted in the memoir, Ayaan tells Hitchens she had become an atheist. He replies that he is pleased to hear it, “Yes,” she says, “I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.” He writes: “Pure music.” Hitchens finds solidarity with Ayaan as an enemy of God and an enemy of theocr…