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New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…of voters are interested in hearing them talk about their faith. While the number of Americans who believe it is important for members of Congress to have strong religious beliefs has remained steady since 2010—about 6-in-10, with even more significant majorities among Protestants and Catholics—this poll shows a growing number of Americans who want to hear candidates talk about their religion. On the Republican side, candidates could view this fin…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…ecently vowed to deport foreigners who “campaign for homosexuality.” Pan Africa ILGA strongly denounced the arrests as part of a pattern of arbitrariness and abuse of power in Tanzania and other African countries. Indonesia: Government rejects most UN recommendations; ban on unmarried sex could snare tourists Human Rights Watch criticized the Indonesian government for accepting two vague pro-human-rights recommendations made by the UN Human Rights…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…s born in Islam,” or Muslim, collapsing the primordial state with the historical and anthropological state of Muslims. Then it loses the point altogether. So I stay away from that designation and the sometimes arrogance that it causes. The point seems to be for some converts to claim they are returning to their origins, and that origin is Islam in the primordial sense. It is a very convincing discourse, but only by Western Muslims. Muslims born an…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ntegrated Prevention,” which hosts a 2-day program that “serves” forty-thousand young people each year. In his speech Dr. Grzelak lamented that, since homosexuality is no longer regarded as a disease, his institute is prohibited from openly teaching youth how to “prevent” it. Enter the Americans The audience at this Warsaw conference eagerly awaited the arrival of anti-LGBTIQ activists from the US, like Dr. Quentin Van Meter, a Pediatric Endocrino…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

Presidential Debate: We Are All Socialists Now

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…bit, and you had to be paying attention to hear it. He said that priority number one in the face of the current crisis was achieving America’s energy independence. Offshore drilling was the cornerstone of that policy, “buying us time,” in his view, to develop alternative energy sources. That seemed to stray rather far from the question, to my ear. But the single new proposal we heard this evening was rolled out here, in the first five minutes, as…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ns for incompatibilities or inherent opposition. I know a fair number of African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims who once voted Republican. They no longer do—not because they disagree with the Republican Party, but because they feel it has no room for them. It seems opposed to their presence in America. A good number in the Muslim-majority world feel the same way about the place of Islam in the world: there is no room for it. It isn’t that these…

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…of watching left him “nauseous with anxiety.” “Trump is evil,” wrote AY in San Francisco, “in the banal and destructive way of petty tyrants, moral vacuums, and especially awful two-year-olds throwing a tantrum….And yes, you can quote me.” LP in Houston wanted to “figure out what Trump voters see,” but also hoped Trump might say something to “destroy his campaign.” I told her I wasn’t sure there was anything he could say to accomplish that, given…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…Iran go nuclear? How will coming events in the Middle East affect us as Americans, economically and geopolitically? Were the global crises we see unfolding today foretold thousands of years ago by the Hebrew prophets? And given the urgency of such crises, is there any hope in the world today? Over the years, Hagee, Evans, and Rosenberg have all cultivated and maintained relationships with Netanyahu. How the new prime minister will relate to his lo…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…stance had interfaith resonance. He was an inspiration, for example, to African-American Christian athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who famously bowed their heads and raised their fists in protest of racism on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics. It took time, though, for Ali to become a national hero. Indeed, he’s been embraced more widely in retirement than during his boxing career, since many conservative white Americans had once balke…