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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…be in the Muslim world or in European countries, where there is a way in which thinking about Israel is a way of thinking about what is most in need of perfection in the world. We should probably worry more about something like these tweets because we’re in a space in which the use of anti-Judaism as a way of fantasizing the perfection of the world is already becoming very powerful. What’s the connection between anti-Jewish politics and utopian p…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…terrorism looks like? Perhaps we should reformulate the question to: Who thinks this is what terrorism looks like ? An ensemble of Other Muslim-Americans, like many other minority groups, have become accustomed to not being included in the conceptualization of Americanness, with Trump’s anti-Muslim, anti-Latinx, anti-immigrant campaign just being the most blatant example. When the media descended on the home of the San Bernardino shooters, it cle…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…nd neither did most of the others. They just did armchair speculation and philosophically suggested the fundamental forces. Then they would take one or two and say that was the most important. There was no scientific basis. Could you walk me through your methodology? We started off with every goal I could think of [with help from my students]. And then we asked other people to add to the list and think of additional ones. We went through books and…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…political services rendered. And Mother Teresa had the satisfaction of watching Hillary’s support for abortion as a fundamental right give way to an acceptance of it as a “tragedy”—one that should be made as “rare” as possible. In the long run, Hillary turned a public scolding into a highly visible friendship with a figure whose widely accepted moral bona fides came with an explicitly anti-abortion imprimatur from the Christian Right. Clearing the…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…race, but more so, how religious ideology has been used to justify racial hierarchies. Several of my students noted that after the election results, their classmates had made comments such as “they [African Americans] can never complain anymore because they got one of theirs in the White House.” Despite the numerous problems with this perspective (which cannot fully be dealt with here), I use this statement to make the same point here that I made…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…and it’s lazy to try to graft conventional religious categories onto something this new and undefined. A fair number of commentators and headline writers have been using the first part of the old Stephen Stills lyric in relation to OWS: “There’s something happening here…” I wish they would add the rest of that lyric: “…what it is ain’t exactly clear.” Instead, the eager pundits rush to tell us exactly what is happening here. Tom Hayden is right t…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…nced today that a hip-hop video calling Newt Gingrich “the GOP’s Kim Kardashian for his many infidelities on marriage—gay, straight and his own” would be delivered, via text messaging starting Thursday, to every registered Republican or non-aligned Iowa voter with a cell phone on record. . . . The video’s star is Molotov Mitchell, whom Cary K. Gordon, president of PeaceMakers Institute and pastor of Sioux City’s Cornerstone Church, calls “the gue…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…st identity isn’t ever reducible to a single category. Take, for example, this first: This is a neat summation of an AltRight tendency. But notice that it mirrors how conservative Muslims see themselves. (But not all Muslims.) That’s because, in every society, there are parallel approaches to the same problems. Allow me to explain. Many Muslims are African-American. A rising proportion are Mexican. Where do the boundaries between these groups lie?…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…ultimately is comforting and uplifting. Tired after a day’s work, we want Whig history. When done well, as is often the case here, it provides some heft to our treasured myths, film clips for our classrooms, and quick factual retorts to toss back at current-day purveyors of historical nonsense. That is all well and good, though I hope the show may ultimately be used not simply for a more sophisticated form of a myth of religious innocence, but to…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…according to journalists like O’Brien and others, creates a safe space within which to discuss matters related to the sightings of UFOs and UAPs (they also informed the public that the term UFO should be replaced with UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomenon). Ironically, this report reversed the multi-year—and quite successful—campaign to debunk all types of witness testimonies regarding UAP sightings. The campaign to debunk testimonies, called Pr…