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Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…nist times.” Driving this legislation was Romania’s intention to join the European Union. In fact, when the witches were unable to stop the ban by democratic means, they threatened to use their magic to keep Romania from joining NATO or the EU. While witches enjoy popular support in Romania, many in the government view them as swindlers whose presence makes their country seem superstitious and backwards. In 2003, two witches in northwestern Roman…

AFA’s Fischer Calls Breivik’s Manifesto “Accurate”

By Sarah Posner

…reivik’s angst was caused by the presence of so many Muslims in Norway and Europe, which he correctly observes is leading to “cultural annihilation.” But he blames their presence not on the Muslims themselves but on the “cultural Marxists” and their obsession with diversity and unrestricted Islamic immigration. So he went after the Marxists rather than the Muslims. (emphasis added). Fischer (whose columns always include the disclaimer that his vie…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…oes not like. At the same time, the Church gets much more support from the European states than it does from America. In a number of countries, Catholic schools are subsidized by the state and in some Catholic agencies even receive a defined share of taxes for overseas development projects. The European Union and the Overseas Development agencies also provide large amounts of money for Catholic projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. There ha…

Breivik Sought to Create ‘Mirror Universe’ of EU

By Haroon Moghul

…, but ethnicity took its place in a similar hierarchical firmament. As the European Union stretched east, many grumbled that Eastern Europeans didn’t belong. They might be white on the outside, but inside—where it mattered—they were still dark. And now we have Breivik, part of a wider trend of anti-Muslim rage, which identifies Islam as a threat to the West. All of it. Breivik’s rhetoric was influenced by white power, Christian triumphalism, and E…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…nto black Africa, east into Southeast Asia and the Philippines, north into Europe. And also West: the fastest-growing religion in the United States is Islam. Islam’s thrust northward into Europe, the heartland of Western culture, is worth a closer look. Islamic immigration into France has been so massive as to reverse the verdict of the battle of Tours; southern France now has more mosques than churches. Noebel lauds Lind’s tracing of “the Marxist…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…nal conversation on Islam and Muslims, as well as similar conversations in Europe—Fear, Inc. opens by sharing just how often Breivik quoted and cited America’s Islam haters. Breivik may have claimed to reflect what Europe feels, but in truth, he adopted the narrative of an organized minority phenomenon. This isn’t everyday folk worrying about their backyards, but money and strategy targeting everyday folk–including American Muslims who often didn…

State as Executioner: Rick Perry Did Not Invent the Death Penalty

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…acy. They still didn’t believe it. The whole thing was just unthinkable in Europe. And they thought of the United States as a cultural extension of Europe… which it most decidedly is not, in terms of religion and culture. When they finally realized that the man in question was on death row, and that he had been placed there by a jury of his peers, and that such a penalty was a reality in the U.S. (thanatike poine is the term, I finally learned), t…

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy

By David Frankfurter

…o dispense with systematic histories of various witch-hunting movements in Europe. (But here the book was realy about the the capability of comparison to form answers about the human imagination; and in that sense I go beyond straight historical context). I also left out statements about the discourse of “terrorism” (which I believe to be a new type of “evil” discourse) and contemporary politics; about the culpability of Christianity or simply mon…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…ase Israel’s enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations, and, sadly, that even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last.” In 1938, Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland was turned into crocod…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…nough to see that is the next big question. How do you see Islam faring in Europe? In America? Do you think the Arab Spring might make things better or worse? I think partly in America and more so in Europe, Islam suffers from being the religion of the immigrants. Immigrant communities sometimes have problems simply because of their “alienness,” and the unwelcoming-ness of their hosts, and these problems can appear as a friction between Islam and…