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

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…an National Convention. Going back at least to the Palmer Raids of November 1919, the government has criminalized political dissent in the name of national security. Though today American Muslims are often on the receiving end of such accusations, it’s essential to recall, as anthropologist Darryl Li points out, that “the problem of so much public discourse isn’t just about animus or ignorance toward Islam or Muslims; it’s also about antipathy tow…

Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

By Lucas McCracken

…n show that “modernized” or “modernizing” nations, like the United States, China, Australia, Thailand, Czech Republic, and many more are becoming less religious by the day. Plus, the authors see good reasons to believe that this trend will continue for years to come. Beyond Doubt is written like a victory speech. It delivers a comforting message to nonbelievers and anyone else worried that Christianity—particularly its evangelical iterations—will…

Wall St., Main St., Religion, and the Bailout

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ident that it can do so right here in Quitman. Yet there were a perplexing number of Antique and Gift Shops, the sorts of thing that normally require a significant tourist industry or leisure class to support. That kind of shopping takes place on the weekends, yet all but one store on Main Street in Quitman was closed this Sunday. I was especially taken by the two largest of them, both of them going out of business. Romine’s Furniture especially c…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…ing abortion. (Feminists in Asia have been tackling sex selection since the 1970s, when fetal sex determination via amniocentesis first hit India.) But sex-selective abortion in the U.S. as “gendercide” is a drumbeat being picked up in the anti-choice community. There a bill to ban sex-selection abortion circulating in New York, and Georgia Right to Life is trying to gather support for similar legislation. Live Action even addresses the issue in a…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…mpact here. Waves of immigration, especially from countries conquered under 19th-century colonialism, have swept across Europe. With foreigners expected to become a majority in several of their cities, Europeans are undergoing a wrenching cultural soul-search. Doomsayers warn of the advent of Eurabia and the imminent demise of European culture. In the United States, meanwhile, a controversial immigration law granting law enforcement officers wider…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…as the 11th century—the last descendants of Muslims were driven out between 1609 and 1614—and some of these made common cause with a Spanish dependency, the Netherlands, which converted to Protestantism and likewise resented religious hegemony. (How the tables have turned.) Protestant Dutch and North African Muslim pirates collaborated to harry Spanish and Portuguese ships, and eventually began to claim territory for themselves. Without this colla…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…nce for a secular ethics. Although His Holiness has spent the overwhelming number of his years in a monk’s robe, it is the man’s great humility that allows him to see beyond his own tradition to the needs of the greater world. For he must know that all religious systems—his own included—are merely signs pointing beyond themselves. 1. Terrence Malick, filmmaker, for reminding us that art may be the most compelling way to reconcile science and relig…

The Law-less Legacy of Global Capital

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…stion before us is where we are in the whirlwind cycle of the System? Is it 1715, or 1720? And if, as seems increasingly likely, it is 1720—or even 1721—and the System has indeed collapsed, then what are we to do by way of imagining a different system, a different fiscal reality, and a different conception of the public trust? These are questions for which the imaginative arts will be at least as important as the moral arts should have been before…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…which promise to create the meaningful global village between shepherds in China and peddlers in Peru? And if it’s not the same, why not? Even more, is there a moral element to the economic act of buying that is now part of our very social fabric as global citizens? Slogans like “buy local” or “buy American” have been with us since the at least the middle of the twentieth century, if not earlier. (We could take the Boston Tea Party as an early exa…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…in a universe that is less empty than it first seems. Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel The Sparrow recounts the horrific journey of Fr. Emilio Sandoz in the year 2019 to the planet Rakhat, and the United Nations inquest which follows his return in 2059. As Sandoz tragically discovers his mission is based on a very human and very flawed misinterpretation of the extraterrestrial culture. Dutch novelist Michael Faber takes a similar subject in his 20…