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Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…l and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Stephen Bannon’s appointment to the post of Chief Strategist and rumors of Frank Gaffney‘s appointment as National Security Advisor certainly do not herald a brighter day. And even though the president-elect now demands that his racist and homophobic supporters “Stop it!”, the most dangerous among them have not wavered in their commitment to intimidate minorities. If anything, they ar…

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

By Sunita Viswanath

…on Hindu shops, temples, and homes across Bangladesh. The violence didn’t stop here, though. In the neighboring Indian state of Tripura, Hindu extremist groups protesting the Bangladesh violence engaged in retaliatory attacks on the state’s Muslim minority. Sadly, it’s all too common for religious violence in South Asia to be spurred by incidents of “religious offense” or “blasphemy.” Strengthened by colonial-era laws which make religious offense…

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…ound the world. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018 was an effort to stop the “migrant caravan” because, according to the shooter, Jews are responsible for orchestrating non-White immigration to replace native-born Whites. In 2006, a Moroccan-Jewish man named Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and tortured because, as revealed by the demands of his kidnappers, they believed his Jewish identity ensured he was rich. It’s not the victims’s identities th…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ned Trump’s post, with Biden spokesperson James Singer declaring: America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich.’ Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the former president had nothing to do with the video, claiming that “This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and r…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…ere you wish you had written? Which one? Why? My two idols in the field of non-fiction would be Joe Carroll, a literary scholar, and Steven Pinker, an evolutionary psychologist. They have quite different styles, but I admire them both and try to emulate them—Carroll’s rigor in composition, the care and precision with which he writes, his dry wit, and Pinker’s air of genial intelligence, the way in which he explains complex subject matter clearly a…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…nd supported—I recognized really quickly that those who sought to identify non-Christians, those who were trying to figure out who shouldn’t be allowed in the crowd, could very easily point the finger at me. So I wasn’t racing to have these conversations about what it means to be a Christian. Before you started exploring Paganism half a dozen years ago, was there a time when you stopped identifying as Christian? There was a good portion of my teen…

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…ect of both personal and corporate prayer. When he speaks to his mother by phone from Libya, she asks if he has felt the prayers coming from his home as well. He tells her that he has felt them and reports, “Maybe it was others’ prayers strengthening me, keeping me afloat.” This is precisely the kind of hope that prayer can inspire that should become central to the understanding of it for those of us who do not engage in prayer. Though the old aph…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ies do not know where they are. They are really scared.” Sheils quotes an anonymous source saying, “It is a very difficult time to be gay in Egypt right now. People are terrified, it is crazy.” Saudi Arabia: Police Arrest 35 for ‘Gay Party’ Thirty-five men attending a party were reportedly arrested by religious police in Saudi Arabia this week. According to Gay Star News: The police took the arrested men to the station and kept the dresses and mus…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…er the Qur’an or the Prophet Muhammad tells them to. Not only have Muslims stopped using their brains, their nervous organs have atrophied from unemployment. Thus if a Muslim woman covers her head, it must be because she was forced to. The rationalists of the West, the free peoples of Middle Earth, must step in to liberate her. III. If Islam Were a Race, Would Islamophobia Be Racist? The right question to ask is why Muslims need liberation. Why…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, opposing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and voting two separate times to use the Constitution to block marriage equality. He’s got a zero rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and a measly 21 percent from the NAACP. Aside from making good on the Republican holy grail quest to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” Price could revive an outdated tactic to oppose LGBT equality, as Salon explains….