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‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…to the Lakota since the Before Time. Pe’sla is part of a complex of sacred sites which include Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and various other sites in the Black Hills, all of which link to Lakota mythology of the union of earth and sky, and many are still used for ceremonies and prayer. As noted in the excerpt above, the Black Hills was set aside for the Lakota people as part of what was then called The Great Sioux Reservation. Less than ten years la…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…tion, blessing, and miracles,” declared Kolenda in his daily blog from the site. Yet northern Uganda, as the rest of the country, is predominantly Christian (85%), with churches of all denominations full to overflowing. The first missionaries arrived in the region at the beginning of the twentieth century and, by the 1940s, local converts were serving as key agents in the East African Revival movement. So was the implication that they had been ine…

Olympics Opening Ceremony as Satanic Ritual

By Joseph Laycock

…ay for an invasion of evil—the New Zealand Herald reported today on the website of conspiracy theorist David Icke, which outlines the plot. Glastonbury Tor, where the games are located, is actually a “vortex,” a site where the earth’s subtle energy can be tapped. The Olympic Bell was designed to harness this energy and release it as a “Satanic frequency” aimed at the audience. Icke’s followers were encouraged to channel heart energy during the cer…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…peating scenes witnessed in Washington, DC, when the parade route became a site for reunions between active Mormons and gay Mormons long estranged from the faith community. In New York City, 50 gay Mormons and allies marched behind the banner of Affirmation, the nation’s oldest Mormon LGBT group. Some held signs quoting a verse from the Book of Mormon: “All are alike unto God.” Nineteen LDS marchers held the Affirmation banner in Houston, as did a…

Texas Man Indicted for Mosque Bomb Threat

By Hussein Rashid

…ort by Maj. Frederick Wong, found on the Homeland Security Digital Library site, concludes that the overemphasis on Muslims blinds us to other forms of terrorism. Loonwatch uses data from the FBI to reveal that from 1980 to 2005, Muslim extremists committed approximately 5% of terrorist related attacks against America, roughly the same as Jewish extremists (6%). Eli Lake from Think Progress uses a data set from 1995 to 2011 to indicate that Muslim…

Yerushalmi, National Review, and a Conservative Fight Over Shari’ah

By Sarah Posner

…dly, patently offensive.” Schmitz is the deputy editor of the conservative site First Things. His fight with Yerushalmi (as well as National Review contributor and lawyer David French) is a part of an ongoing intra-conservative battle over Islamophobia. In his latest post at National Review, Schmitz writes, logically dismantling Yerushalmi’s panic: It remains the case that anti-sharia activists have identified a grand total of seven cases in 35 ye…

Muslim Opponent of FGM Ousted From Mayo Clinic

By Hussein Rashid

…for allegedly supporting female genital mutilation (FGM). According to the site, Dr. Hatem al-Haj, a pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, says of FGM: I have always condemned Female Genital Mutilation, or FGM. Moreover, I have unequivocally voiced both orally and in written form the condemnation of all harmful forms of Female Genital Cutting FGC, justifiably known as FGM. Furthermore, I have taught that nothing in Islamic Law and religiou…

Diagnosing Robertson’s Alzheimer’s Statement

By Sarah Posner

…ct. The rest of his recommendations, including those gathered from his Web site and other published writings, aren’t specific evidence-based treatments for A.D., but rather a potpourri of unproven treatments, such as antioxidants and proprietary nutraceuticals. Amen has said he was called by God to do brain scans, an argument similar to that made by Robertson as to why people should listen to his ramblings. Amen claims to be able to ascertain a pr…

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…ccept the invitation.” In one LDS congregation near the proposed building site, local LDS Church leaders read a similar message over the pulpit to congregants and taught Sunday School lessons on “sustaining Church leaders.” In the lexicon of Mormonism, the use of words like “invitation” and “sustaining” and the involvement of the LDS Church’s high-ranking Quorum of Twelve Apostles sent a clear message to observant Latter-day Saints who value obed…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…ole of CBST given the rise of the internet and their active and engaged website, their role in Pride in New York City, and their very visibility. I regret I can’t answer. I have no information about the impact of that tool of communication and public visibility. Not having studied the impact of CBST’s impressive website, I assume it must have expanded the potential of membership recruitment. In the earlier days it was by the chance of knowing some…