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New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers become 0.005% over a decade, or 0.0005% per year. Last year there were 14,000 homicides in the U.S., and with a population of 300,000,000, that’s about 0.0005% of the population are murderers. The report ends with this sage advice: “This study’s findings challenge Americans to be vigilant against the threat of homegrown terrorism while maintaining a…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…ll reputable scientific and professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric—and the list goes on (and on). But like many fundamentalist institutions, Liberty sees no issue with this bogus practice. Instead, the university finds much to celebrate in regard to Emerick’s attempts to fight against homosexuality. In fact, in Liberty’s official announcement of E…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e a man, explained that he wants to undergo a sex reassignment surgery but cannot because such surgeries are illegal in the tiny North African nation. A Tunisian female footballer grabbed headlines in 2013 when she legally changed her status from female to male after court consent. But such incidents seldom take place. “From the outside, I am a man. But inside, I am a woman. But deeper inside, I am a man,” Jalel, wearing a pair of sunglasses that…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…of American racism and imperialism struck many ordinary Americans as politically radical and thus dangerous. The globe’s most powerful symbol of resistance to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was the Nation of Islam’s most famous member, boxer Muhammad Ali. In 1967, Ali refused induction in the U.S. armed forces to protest the war, and as a result, was forced to give up his heavyweight boxing crown. In 2017, even though no Muslim American criti…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…study could be trusted, only 1% of the original 300 cases were reported as categorical shifts from gay to straight. For these and other reasons, the study was open to criticism even before Bussee’s disclosure. However, based on the experience of Bussee and Cooper, there is even more reason to question the study—as well as the objective of sexual reorientation in general. _____________________ *Pattison, E.M., & Pattison, M.L. (1980). “‘Ex-gays’:…

Who’s Scared of Polygamy? A Restrained Case for the “Slippery Slope” Argument

By William E. Smith

…chin Order and a famous Protestant convert, wrote a dialogue making a biblical case for polygamy (though he was subsequently exiled from most of Western and Central Europe for publishing it). About a hundred years later, John Milton, of Paradise Lost fame, composed his own case for polygamy in his De doctrina christiana. Yet even these hardly exhaust the options. Philip of Hesse, a major Protestant nobleman, married a second wife. He did so, moreo…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…d patient’s bedside. The deathbed will often be unattended except for critical medical personnel. In a culture of extreme individualism, we like to think that each of our deaths will be special. People will notice when we drop dead―at least those in our extended social sphere. Our contemporary conventional practices of burial are evidence of this Good Death neoliberal individualism: our dead body preserved with toxic chemical embalming (for Christ…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…no one claims public credit. After all, Timothy McVeigh did not plan to be caught. Only a series of coincidences led to his capture. But why would terrorists go to the trouble (for them) and the awful experience (for us) to commit a horrendous act of terrorism and not take credit for it? Wouldn’t they want everyone to know what cause was being promoted? Not necessarily. Anonymous terrorism is actually fairly common. In my own studies of terrorism…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…tween 1990 and 2010, the Convention added 955,000 members, 940,000 of whom came from their base states. (Of those, just less than 500,000 came from Texas.) So it’s the angle in that yellow line that must give SBC executives sleepless night. Other than a brief upward tick in the ’80s, it’s been in steep decline. To make matters worse, since the mid-1990’s, it’s been in negative territory. Outside its geographic heartland, the SBC in 2010 was about…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s faith. “It has implications for the kinds of goods—be it housing and medical care, public accommodations, employment—[that could be denied],” Melling explained. “This could have implications, depending how it’s written, for other groups who are at risk for being turned away from a business in the name of the same principle. If the right of religion says that you can invoke your speech claims or your religious claims not to comply with an anti-di…