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Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

By Jay Michaelson

…Israelites. Genesis 43:32 states that eating with Israelites is toevah for Egyptians. Gen. 43:34 states that shepherds are toevah to Egyptians—the sons of Israel are themselves shepherds. In Exodus 8:22, Moses describes Israelite sacrifices as being toevat mitzrayim (toevah of Egypt), although obviously Israelite ritual is not an objective “abomination.” If toevah means abomination, then eating with shepherds, eating with Israelites, and Israelite…

Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…their authenticity, thereby ignoring the very real ongoing process that many Muslims are currently engaging in of delegitimizing the ‘Islamic State.’ In Wood’s judgement it doesn’t matter what Muslims say, as long as the ‘Islamic State’ continues to quote the original scripture, they will be legitimate in his eyes. Wood repeatedly refers to the ‘Islamic State’ as medieval, a term that links his perception of the ancient status of the group with i…

Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…ut of churches and mosques. Secularism is on the way out in Bangladesh. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior member for his plans to run for president. Some Methodist clergy are saying they’ll officiate gay marriages whether the denomination’s leaders like it or not. This comes as the United Methodist Church found Rev. Amy DeLong guilty of marrying a lesbian couple in 2009. Progressive Christians are throwing a camp meeting with…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…cade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Nahda in Tunisia Claim Victories in post-Arab Spring elections to establish new governments and constitutions. 5. Bahrain Continues to Crack Down on Dissent and peaceful protests, violate human rights, and issue extreme sentences on detainees. 6. Rise of Militants in Mali and Libya reflects the growing network of radical extremism operating in Africa. 7. The US…

Martyr of the Hijab: Marwa Sherbini, a Walking Veil?

By Shabana Mir

…om when she was murdered. My own daughter is three. She is fully aware of any pain and any anxiety I experience. She won’t let a physician or a hair-dresser touch me without registering loud protest. I cannot imagine the trauma this child experienced when his mother was killed before his eyes. I don’t want to imagine what this will do to his sense of self and security. She was the mother of a murdered child, too. The fetus in her womb was three mo…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…find those who maintain such views problematic for their xenophobia, misogyny, etc.) many of us still retain an attitude about the world that such religiosity gave birth to. Not necessarily because we believe it, but because we can’t seem to not believe it. Upon what foundations would our Judaism stand if the attitude that “anti-Semitism is the grand unified theory of everything” simply were not true? Thus, Israel can then never quite be evaluated…

Beck: Muslim Brotherhood Is Like ACORN

By Sarah Posner

…ght on the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday, and now Media Matters has a clip of Glenn Beck’s radio show today, in which he throws together Nazis, communists, Islamists, and — naturally — the Muslim Brotherhood. “We have evidence of the uber-left . . . sowing the seeds and helping those in Egypt,” said Beck. “You need to know the connections,” Beck warned. “This is about our survival.” “They’re operating like ACORN,” Beck said of the Muslim Brother…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…pretative practice and the text of Revelation is so polyvalent, are there any readings of revelation that are out of bounds? Well the question is, who sets the bounds? For many groups, people will say, well the way we read it is the only right way. But I would start to look at the whole history of this book, and how it has lived beyond the context in which John wrote it (the Jewish war against Rome and the world that in which he and the Jewish peo…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…did not compel, or even solicit, conversions—those happened in significant numbers many centuries after the original Muslim conquerors had disappeared), and naturally it was not a liberal or secular democracy. But it also brought together peoples who’d never had a common worldview, or shared humanity, before. Muhammad was not like Jesus, born into a society with a powerful government. He was born into a place with no unifying government. An orphan…

Persecuted and Persecutors

By Kate Childs Graham

…, “A common theme among these countries—and other serial offenders such as Egypt and northern Nigeria and Saudi Arabia—is the rise of religious fundamentalism. Persecuted and Forgotten? underlines the rise of militant Islamist aggression against Christianity—and the same concern can be raised regarding Hinduism in India and Buddhism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.” Perhaps violence against Christians has increased as the report suggests. However, ther…