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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…fter I keep him waiting for 30 minutes (because of my mistake), I offer to buy him a cone from The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. He pays for his. I am not sure where the cone, or his boot, may end up as we talk. MMK is considered to be the father of the American Muslim Punk Movement. His originally self-published novel, The Taqwacores, was photocopied and spiral-bound. Sold out of car trunks, given away for free, or bought over the internet (like I did…

“[I] Pray For Barack Obama To Die And Go To Hell”: The Story The Media Missed

By Frederick Clarkson

…rewhella, founder of Missionaries to the Preborn (who has urged parents to buy each of their children “an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition” for their church militia); Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry (who ran as a Constitution Party candidate for Congress in 1998, but who has since become a Republican); and even Rev. Michael Bray, a convicted felon and longtime leader in the Army of God. Like the Reconstructionists, Anderson believes i…

Is Ken Starr ‘Pulling a Clinton’ on Jewish Studies Professor Marc Ellis?

By Kiera Feldman

…g in an investigation by the administration and its offering him a ‘tenure buy out,’ which he declined. We understand, further, that on November 16, four months after the July 15 notification, the chair of the Faculty Dismissal Committee notified Professor Ellis that the administration was seeking his dismissal.” Ellis’ lawyer declined to discuss the nature of the complaint, but he did note that the female faculty member who filed it was “a former…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…l campaign. “It is a larger advertisement than what his money can actually buy in terms of advertising.” Talen points a finger at the city’s development policies under Bloomberg, arguing that its support for big business and gentrification is ruining New York’s real treasures, its neighborhoods. These policies are not inevitable good sense, Talen insists, but intrusions of corporate power. People’s willingness to accept the status quo is a failure…

What Happens When There’s Nothing Left to Say About Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…d be invalidating. So it’s not only an old idea, it’s a stupid idea. The reality is that there will be nothing to be done, legally speaking, if the Court rules in favor of marriage equality. Same-sex couples will buy jewelry, open checking accounts, go to church, and get married, and no one, not Franklin Graham and not Scott Walker, can think of a single thing to stop it. Which is, of course, as it should be….

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…you like it on hold, so someone else doesn’t—(fails to suppress laughter)—buy it first? Haroon: Yeah, uh, sure, because it’s for, a, like a friend. Of which I have many. Strand: We’ll need your friend’s name and credit card. Shit. Allegations include: That Islam is not, like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, a “great religion,” but a toxic death cult; that Muslims can only be peaceful “moderates” who work to reform their toxic death cu…

Porn, Abuse, or Just Plain Incompatibility… Is Divorce Ever a Sin?

By Daniel Schultz

…ed more often these days because they can afford to. Essentially, they can buy their way out of a bad relationship and survive. That’s true of men, but particularly of women, who tend to have fewer financial resources than their male partners. Don’t think that there aren’t men who will use that to their advantage. Part of Jesus’ concern with divorce stemmed from the plight of abandoned women in his day, who were often reduced to begging or prostit…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…ing their own food and learning to live “off the grid” a bit more. I don’t buy that it’s because the economy may collapse so completely that we won’t even be able to get bread at the supermarket. I think it’s because, in our online age, people want to be connected to stuff, to “real” things like soil and sweat and fruit. And I think that’s part of what’s behind the OWS protests. Their rhetoric is sometimes anti-capitalist. But it’s never anti-Ste…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…a cruel and selfish act. To explain the motives for terrorism is often to buy into that narrative. After the Charlie Hebdo murders, for example, when George Packer argued that ideology was to blame, some of the people likeliest to agree with him were probably members of al Qaeda. Blame is more closely related to justification than we often admit. Both seek clarity. In response, we might want to acknowledge—regularly, forcefully—everything that we…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…ers were not usable in most places; they were usable in Ferguson. So large numbers of African Americans who were displaced by urban renewal, by slum clearance in the central city, moved outside the central city, north and west, into places like Ferguson. Since African Americans were prohibited from living in most other places, those communities became predominantly or nearly all black. So that’s how Ferguson became the Ferguson we know today. Why…