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The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…rked by the prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”). Elsewhere in its telling of the story of ‘Īsā and Maryam, the Qur’an transmits traditions that were popular in Christian texts that circulated widely in the East, such as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and the Proto-Gospel of James. The earliest Muslims resembled Eastern Christians not only in theology but also in pract…

Back to Basics: Feminism 101

By Amina Wadud

…round the block…” I love that idea. Well, in my case, I’ve been around the world. I’ve been around enough times to know there is more at stake in supporting the rights of Muslim women than proving every single word of the Qur’an is acceptable to every single reader (especially in translation). But as I have also already stated, it is the Qur’an to which I owe my surrender to God and my feminism. So I will discuss some of the Qur’anic support for m…

Pastor Rob Bell Catches Hell From Conservatives

By Eric Reitan

…ed with arrogance: the refusal to recognize that their beliefs about God’s word could be wrong. The fanatic treats a challenge to their own beliefs as if it were a challenge to the word of God. Fanatics in this sense needn’t be violent, nor do they necessarily express the kind of hateful “God hate fags” vitriol spewing from such people as Fred Phelps. But there is, in fanaticism, a dangerous combination of humility and arrogance that hermetically…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…ostmodernism and hippie New Ageism as origins of America’s post-truth fake news world, and makes the mistake—in my view—of downplaying religion. What, after all, are the lines of influence from academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism to what David Brooks called the “alternative-reality right”? In Andersen’s account, these ideas sort of enter the American milieu, where they cook in the stew of American individualism until they become adopted b…

News Flash from World Net Daily: Easter is Pagan Holiday

By Lauri Lebo

…from the Culture Wars. Joe Kovacs, the executive director of the Christian news website World Net Daily, has penned a column arguing that Easter has roots in paganism. So, in addition to revealing that he is clueless about his own religious holidays (he’s only figuring this out now?), he also displays a stunning lack of consistency: The very first commandment of the Big Ten is perhaps one of the most overlooked in everyday life. In just eight word…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he-clock protection from German police after threats on her life,” reports Newsweek: In the days since her Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque opened last month, Ates said, she was asked while crossing the street by three men if she headed the “perverse” mosque where “men, women, lesbians and gays” pray together. When she responded to the men, she said, one shouted: “You’ll die!” Ates also accused Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for stirring up hatred…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sman Ruben Condori Cusi cited Adolf Hitler in justifying his opposition: Peruvian Nationalist Party Congressman Ruben Condori Cusi made the comments late last week telling Arroba Radio that Hitler wasn’t wrong about everything. ‘I read Mein Kampf by Hitler … and in some parts he’s right, because some types of misconduct are generated by a certain kind of life,’ Congressman Cusi said. ‘Homosexuality is more or less a kind of misconduct.’ Cusi went…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…no Muslim pope.’ But despite this, there is only one Islam. Don’t take her word for it, though. Take her word for it: 4) “Changing central aspects of Islamic doctrine became even more difficult in the tenth century.” Or: “Unlike Islam, Christianity has never been a static religion.” 5) In a screed concerning overly high Muslim birthrates: “If a man can marry up to four wives and have multiple children with each of them, the numbers grow quickly.”…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…ere we go again. The Republican primaries are six months away, and already news stories are raising fears on the left about ‘crazy Christians.’” It’s true that political reporters can stumble when covering religion, but Miller is making a more sweeping charge: that “leftists” and journalists are unfairly hyping the influence of far-right leaders and painting all evangelicals with the same brush. She doesn’t make the case. Miller links to recent in…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…. Robinson Oxford University Press, April 2016 This premise isn’t exactly true; race is a construct—a shifting template created by human beings and applied to human bodies. To be clear, constructs are real. Racial categories are meaningful to anyone who lives within them (i.e. everyone), and this whole conversation could sound utterly irrelevant to, say, a black woman who’s just been pulled over by the police. Still, not to get too circular here,…