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The King of Irony

By Laury Silvers

…abuse, and to offer Muslim Americans, native and immigrant, the friendship that our Irish and Jewish ancestors and so many other new Americans should have enjoyed….

Bachmann’s Law School Mentor Asserts Biblical Roots of American Political System

By Julie Ingersoll

…biblical roots (Calvinist, actually) of the American political system and American Law. At the American Vision conference, he presented a belabored discussion of what a church can and cannot do within the guidelines of the IRS rules. He cited the part of the code that prohibits influencing legislation and labeled it “legalese,” before a lengthy parsing of what counts as legislation and then what counts as influencing— none of which substantially…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Two-thirds of those surveyed (66%) say religion is losing its influence in American life, with more than half citing an excessive focus on rules (51%) and an inappropriate concern with money and power (51%). But do such data really tell us much about American religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-n…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…se of research, some of the early sections in particular tend to read like Americana fanfic or a generic Hallmark movie script. To take just one example, in the prologue Cook describes QAnon adherents as: “torn apart at the seams—real people consumed by fake news trying to find a way back to each other, and to themselves.” And the subjects’ highly-idealized pre-QAnon lives make the reader feel as though they’re being whacked over the head with the…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…otry, especially because it comes back to haunt him (he, an Arab Christian American, is tarred with Islamist Hamas). For those in the GOP who might be reading this, allow me to tell you: The percentage of Christians among the Palestinian population is about the same as the percentage of African Americans in the U.S.A. For a party so concerned with America’s Christian identity, Romney and Gingrich’s dismissal of the Palestinians is part of their br…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…faith groups, Muslims are looking for ways to raise families and live the American dream. Today, the American Muslim community feels like all Americans do: outraged, betrayed, and demanding justice be served quickly. Zeenat Rahman is even more personal: I went to the mosque today, to observe the ritual Friday prayer. I prayed for the souls of the victims and for their families, not because the alleged perpetrator is Muslim, but because as a Musli…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

By Annika Brockschmidt

…the others, it’s claimed, aren’t “real Christians”—and therefore not “real Americans.” Christian and American identities are inseparable in Christian nationalism, merged into one another. At the same time, blood and soil are central to this ideology. This focus stems, as Yale sociologist Philip Gorski describes, from drawing a parallel between the Bible’s conquest of the Holy Land by the Israelites, and the violent conquest of the American contine…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…erence. However, we know both of these traditions are too foreign for most Americans, despite the fact that Jesus was Jewish and Morocco was one of the first countries to recognize American independence. No, the sophistication of language I refer to is the one of nuance. The curse that has plagued the coverage of Islam since the Iranian Revolution, that it is one monolithic religion, is really the plague on religion coverage in general. Over these…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…n Without Tarrying for Any!” foreshadowed Freedom Now! The Sixties were as American as apple pie or that great American hippie Johnny Appleseed. 3. Given the reality of the socially constructed cages we are trapped in, the Matrixes which we accept unknowingly, we have two choices. We can either make the cage as comfortable as can be for as many people equally as possible; Or we can try to break out of the cage, break out of the text, break out of…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ew up in the neighborhood. He hadn’t realized its significance to the Arab American community until he was lobbying the New York Landmark Commission to preserve the former St. George’s Melkite Church on Washington Street, and found out he was not alone. That’s when he met Todd Fine, the dynamic leader of a group called Save Washington Street. Fine also led a years-long campaign to commemorate the centennial of the first Arab-American novel, The Bo…