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Dispatches from the Workplace: Is that Shari’a?

By Kim Bobo

…lis religious leaders, led by Rev. Darren Cushman Wood, pastor of Speedway United Methodist Church and organizer Rev. C.J. Hawking, now the director of the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, called itself the Indianapolis Clergy Committee. During one delegation, the clergy members even got themselves arrested—possibly a first in Indianapolis activist history. One company that was visited (“delegated”) several times by religious delegat…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…ches—such as his variation on a classical conspiracy theory alleging that “international financial power brokers based in Europe” seek to control the world. That class of conspiricism derives from the Protocols of The Elders of Zion and also from Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic tract, deeply influential in Germany in the years preceding the rise of Hitler’s Third Reich, “The International Jew”—a document that, by one account, was for a period placed in…

RDPulpit: Dry Bones & Oil Spills: the Dangerous Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa

By Peter Herman

…n Tort Statute of 1789, which allows non-United States citizens to sue for international human rights violations in US courts. They also face civil charges under the Torture Victim Protection Act, which empowers victims to seek damages in US courts for torture and extrajudicial killings, regardless of where those acts occurred. The Center for Constitutional Rights and EarthRights International, along with several noted human rights attorneys, have…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…on the ground in Muslim majority countries.” Reinforcing a false domestic/international divide CVE not only advertises itself as a “softer” alternative to direct surveillance but presents itself in stark contrast to “hard” U.S. counterterrorism efforts overseas. We may pursue foreign terrorists through covert action and drone strikes, the thinking goes, but at home the government respects civil liberties. Yet this false domestic/foreign divide co…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…unscripted footage—then we can analyze Trump’s live-action moments in the international spotlight not merely for evidence of his exploitation of reality TV techniques, but also for that very “realness” that the genre promises as its product. “Reality television” existed first as tragedy, then as farce. Techniques developed in documentary work, most notably by Claude Lanzmann in his monumental film Shoah, filtered down to small screens and smaller…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e identified. Not only is Birgit Kelle, a well-known speaker at German and international Christian Right events, but she also showed up at a recent CPAC event in Hungary to give a speech in opposition to trans rights. She’s also a staunch anti-choice activist. A significant number of the other signatories are members of a right-wing German think tank called, innocently enough, “Netzwerk für Wissenschaftsfreiheit” (Network for the Freedom of Scienc…

Battle of Antisemitism Definitions is Actually a Proxy War For Criticism of Israel

By Joshua Shanes

…n the widely-cited, but nearly as widely critiqued and abused, text of the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA). In the words of its authors, the JDA seeks “to provide a usable, concise, and historically-informed core definition of antisemitism with a set of guidelines.” In doing so, it aims to “strengthen the fight against antisemitism by clarifying what it is and how it is manifested,” while also protecting—and this is the key…

Rambo & Christian Fellow Travelers

By Gabriel Mckee

The missionary group Christian Freedom International issued a call this week for renewed humanitarian aid to Burma. The impetus for the announcement was the success of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo, which depicts the brutal oppression of Burma’s Karen people. There’s a certain irony in this fusion of missionary and mercenary; namely, that the entire point of Rambo is to argue against humanitarian aid. At the film’s beginning, the eponymous warrior,…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…list, God will bless them with riches in return? (The Super PAC, Americans United for Values, did not respond to a request for comment.) Trump, who is running neck and neck with Cruz in Iowa, has aligned himself with some televangelists. Trump’s embrace of controversial televangelists started during his failed 2012 run, and continued with his 2016 run—although Kenneth Copeland, possibly the most well-known of the group that laid hands on Trump las…

Gay by the Grace of God

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n Studios, famous for the Princess Diana Gay Bible has launched “Leviticus International,” a new website which promises to help unhappy straights become gay. According to film producer Max Mitchell, creator of the site, “Jesus Christ has the power to end heterosexuals’ misery and make them happy well-adjusted gays.” The site promises to help release people “from the shackles of straight life,” and provides testimonies from those who “Prayed and Go…