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RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…fluenced by once-fashionable Marxist ideologies that moved in parts of the Arab world. Though the Marxist option is dead as a political paradigm, suggestive remnants of the philosophy and its opiate theories still do their work to some degree. My atheist kin remain, in my view, hamstrung by carefully-worded tautologies of old Soviet vintage that once tried to promote national atheism through argument-manufacturing—not to mention demolition, near g…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…neffable, so no language will suffice. Starting with the gender-neutral in Arabic “whoever”; then, we get the gender inclusive: “male or female”; then we revert to the male, but in this case it is clearly the generic, “believer,” because finally, we get plural, as in “all such” will be rewarded. The struggle to make this gender-inclusive while still concise in language tells me a lot about Qur’anic logic and guidance, but that deserves a whole dif…

From Cairo to the Bible Belt: What US Christianity Must Face for Peace in the Middle East

By Anthea Butler

…merica and Israel together waiting for Armageddon to occur at the hands of Arab countries. Rather, President Obama’s deft maneuvering between his father’s Islamic beliefs and roots, his Christianity, the Maronite and Coptic communities, Jews, Sunnis, and Shias represents not only a desire to bring together parts of the Middle East, but to bring together these groups in America as well. A case could be made that this was not only a speech to diffus…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…nd a Palestinian flag wrapped around his neck. “This was given to me by an Arab,” he later explains. Thousands of miles away an American émigré from Brooklyn takes the train to Sderot from his apartment outside of Jerusalem. He wants to see what is happening in Gaza for himself, so he climbs a hill on the northwest side of the city, overlooking Beit Hanoun and further south, Gaza City with its 500,000 Palestinian residents. The buildings look smal…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…entative of my life, but I don’t complain they are not Americans. I am not Arab, but I am Shi’ah, but a different Shi’ah than the ones on the show. I love it. They are my neighbors and friends, because we all have similar stories. I don’t want them to represent me, I want them to represent themselves, and we can talk about the diversity in the American Muslim community. What many of these criticizers, not critics, fail to realize is that actions h…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…in a segregated camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the pres…

Anti-J Street Inquisitor and Palin Israel Guide Close with Christian Zionists

By Sarah Posner

…for their treatment of Israel and explain the continued funding. . . from Arab nations and donors.” J Street, which favors a two-state solution, calls itself “pro-peace” and “pro-Israel,” which incenses pundits like Caroline Glick, quoted in the CBN article as saying, ridiculously, that J Street wants to “wage war against Israel.” There was negative reaction to Danon’s show trial from other American Jewish groups, even from the Anti-Defamation Le…

How the Messianic Jews Story is Playing in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…ng the Jewishness of Israel extends to “rescuing” Jewish girls from dating Arab boys. Yad L’Achim was portrayed rather unsympathetically in an investigative report by Israel Channel 1 in 2011, which pleased Messianic Jews there for its treatment of what they consider to be harassment and even persecution by the ultra-Orthodox. Another group, Jewish Israel, which claims missionaries and Messianic Judaism threaten the Jewish identity of Israel, is…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…onvert, or else be killed or expelled. It’s a tragic love story between an Arab man and a Moroccan woman who’s forced to convert from Islam to Christianity in Granada, Spain in 1492. Significantly less well known than Heine’s famous quote is the fact that the play centers around the burning of a Qur’an. That act prompts the famous sentence that’s now engraved on a plaque in Berlin’s Opera Square where, in 1933, some 40,000 people gathered to watch…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…try ratings here. Dominican Republic: Govt Commission Bans Miley Cyrus For Promoting Lesbian Sex We have reported previously on some religious leaders’ resistance to James “Wally” Brewster, the openly gay US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Last week, Blabbeando reported, “The National Commission for Public Performances in the Dominican Republic announced today that they were banning a September 13th Miley Cyrus concert for, among other thing…