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How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…us. For an example of this, we can look at how one of the largest Hindu-American organizations, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), reacted to the violence in Bangladesh and Tripura. The VHPA is aligned closely with the political ideology of Hindu nationalism, and has a proven track record of collaborating with Hindu extremist ideologues such as Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, who has publicly declared that “Islam should be eradicated from…

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…ma might actually be re-elected, which they believe would spell the end of freedom and America itself. Garlow told pastors that America has only 30-some days to turn around or the nation and the liberties and privileges Americans have enjoyed “are going to evaporate very rapidly.” Garlow and other religious right leaders made that same point at this past Saturday’s “America for Jesus” rally in Philadelphia, which kicked off a number of prayer-and…

Whatchoo Talkin Bout, Senator Reid? Obama’s African-American Dialect is Religious

By Jonathan L. Walton

…iption of the American electorate when it comes to racial preference. An African American of a lighter hue who belies all of the cultural markers that are often associated with “blackness” has a better chance of broad success in America. Well, as someone of “Negro dialect” might say, “No S*%t Sherlock!” Intraracial discrimination and privilege based on the color of one’s skin extends back to the antebellum South. And many people of color are well…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…en Impacting the Nation” meeting, declared: “We need you to come in and lock shields to strengthen up the men who are going into the fight for you, to let these other women know—the Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink the women—these women who are neutering American men and bringing us to this point of this incredible weakness, to let them know that we are not going to have our men become subservient.”…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…l was passed (making it the only state to have actually passed an academic freedom bill into law), proposed bills have included global warming and human cloning on the list of “controversial topics,” as they encourage “thinking critically” about the “relationships between explanations and evidence.” More recently, in Kentucky, a bill was introduced in the Legislature that would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of sci…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ious liberty.” Certainly, the religious right has made “religious liberty” code for “we reserve the right to discriminate against LGBT people with impunity,” but I think some businesses ought to have the right to deal with who they want to deal with. A photographer, or a baker, for example, should be able to serve who they please. If their refusal to serve an LGBT person (or anybody else for that matter) leads to a lawsuit or a boycott, that’s the…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…perspectives on the permissibility of military activity and allows one to better comprehend the historical reasons for the transformation of the Qur’anic defensive jihad into offensive imperial warfare over time. Such a project of recovery allows Muslims to subscribe to contemporary international norms of defensive, limited war and pursue the preferential option for peace as a moral imperative established by their own tradition. Above all, it all…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…an civil and ecclesial structures. Anything less is bogus. Every time such code language is used, feminist geniuses will be happy to flag it for what it is. Second, the document sets women in canonical religious communities against one another and over against other laywomen. If “competent women religious” are to be pseudo-clericalized as the next step forward, I say, no thank you. The goal of progressive Catholics who have supported the nuns in t…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…orker justice issues) used Yiddish as an organizing language but spoke “American.” The conceptual vocabulary of the union movement and the socialist movement was embraced by the Jewish participants in those movements; and continued to be used when those Jews started their own organizations, such as the American Jewish Congress. During the seventies (which was, for all intents and purposes, when the sixties hit the Jewish community) and eighties, t…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…5% of them before the age of 12. Femicide is a global problem and Latin America one of the hot spots. Between 1987 and 1997 192 women were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and another 138 in Tijuana, Mexico. With support from the Ford Foundation, a leader in women’s rights funding, a regional network of women’s groups has formed to address the problem which continues unabated with little action by the police and silence from the church. No threats of exc…