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African Anglo Male, Obama, Running Against White Anglo Female, Hillary…

By Paula M. Cooey

…opose to address severe economic and environmental problems and the war in Iraq (or if things continue at their present pace, the looming war in Iran). And, of course, even with these designations socioeconomic class still remains the elephant in the room. I, a white beneficiary of racism, a female whose mother, as a rural woman, would never had access to my job as academic and theologian, am living proof that some, even if way too few, can still…

Words Matter: The Linguistic Damage of “Going Muslim”

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…tary dress? Did his sympathies for innocent victims in our ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan overwhelm his common sense of decency? Should the FBI and security arms of the US military have pounced on him when they uncovered his initial links to a radical imam? One result that I have noticed among those who study Islam, especially my Muslim colleagues, is a growing fault line over the dubious “good Muslim/bad Muslim” binary. As Mahmood Mamdani h…

Irony Thick in Bush Interview with Focus on the Family

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s left more than 48,000 people dead in Afghanistan and 1.6 million dead in Iraq. “I think the role of a leader is to understand there are differences on the issue of promoting a culture of life,” he says. “In other words, (we need to) convince people that we’re a more noble society if we honor life, without somebody castigating somebody based upon a differing opinion.” Then again, the only “life” that matters to Bush and Focus on the Family is tha…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

…e body count from America alone is far greater. Think about the victims in Iraq. Think about crimes during the Vietnam War. Think about torture under the Bush administration. Think about complaints raised about American crimes in Afghanistan, including drone attacks, the specific subject of her question! It was none other than Martin Luther King Jr. who called America, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Of course, he was also…

Motivations of “God Hates Fags” Church’s Philosophy

By Lauri Lebo

…hether Westboro’s 2006 picketing outside the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq constitutes protected speech. So perhaps now is a good time to examine the motivations of hate from the Phelps family. Fortunately, in a series of articles, Amarnath Amarasingam, a doctoral candidate in the Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies, has dug into Westboro Baptist’s philosophy and offers some insight into where such a twisted belief structure comes from….

The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?

By Haroon Moghul

…meant some kind of blowback to Salman Rushdie’s novel was likely: The Iran-Iraq War had just ended and the Soviets were retreating from their brutal occupation of Afghanistan. Still, few expected the incendiary outburst that ensued, let alone a violent attempted murder more than 30 years later. Back in 6th grade, I read the book. Not many kids that age would, let alone Muslim ones. But with my mother’s help, I borrowed a copy. She wasn’t pleased w…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…azine or Bill Moyer’s television reporting. Consider, for example, how the Iraq war was opposed by most sectors of world Christianity, including most US mainline Protestant leaders. This was less a failure to speak than a resistance to listening. Although George Bush claims to be Methodist, he refused to meet with Methodist bishops to discuss the war. In 2006, the United Church of Christ tried to buy television ads promoting religious diversity un…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…some heat for working with a single man from Syria and another family from Iraq. A local church from one of the more conservative denominations hosted some traveling “missionaries” who spoke on the dangers of Islam and its hostility to Christian values. That led to some ugliness. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been limited to this isolated incident. In the wake of last week’s attacks in Paris, one politician has leapfrogged another in getting out in fro…

The Fitna Debacle: Extremists Gone Wild

By Andrea Useem

…f anything is infuriating about Wilders’ film, it’s how he (like those who promote similar ideas in the United States, including Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes) ignores Muslim reform and insists on a totalitarian vision of Islam, demanding that Muslims either rip up their scripture or admit to being terrorist sympathizers. Like Christopher Hitchens attacking belief, these voices seem to want to annihilate all forms of Islam—and that’s a tough pos…

Freak Show at Supreme Court

By Lauri Lebo

…He’s a staff sergeant in the Army Reserve, having served on active duty in Iraq, tours totaling 27 months. He lives in Lillington, N.C., near Fort Bragg. “I think they should be out here,” Clark said. “They’re the biggest idiots in the world, and they’re out here showing everybody that they’re the biggest idiots in the world — and they have the right to do that. Isn’t that amazing? I served in the military to preserve their right to show everybody…