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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…he scenario I see unfolding if we allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military is an initial period of turmoil in which members of the services would attempt to show their opposition through the limited means available to them. This would result in a clampdown by military authorities in an effort to force acceptance, accompanied by a sensitivity-training regimen. One or more incidents of violence against homosexuals, real or staged by the “ga…

Republicans Lead the Way
on Repeal of “Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…said. “In fact, I believe you will see a mass exodus of chaplains from the military if, in fact, the military is forced to throw open its arms to embrace homosexuality.” Nicholson disagreed, saying religious beliefs were once used to make interracial marriage illegal – even in the military. Lifting that ban didn’t “muzzle” any chaplains. “A chaplain in the military today can still oppose interracial marriage, but it’s legal in the United States an…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…ide of the military and return in flesh or in memory to society beyond the military. Their experiences in the military may well reflect the “before” and will certainly shape the “after.” So, many kinds of scholars, especially scholars of religion, need to do more to weave experiences of war and military life into our narratives. Second, to turn things around a bit, histories of war and the military are often written as if war were a completely are…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nd with international connections such as Russia and Pakistan is that it remembers what happened twenty years ago. At that time an intensive US military assault was able to destroy the Taliban’s control as quickly as the American-supported Afghan government collapsed in 2021. In both cases the critical issue was a withdrawal of support from tribal warlords and regional leaders in what had been tacit support. The Taliban is mindful that this could…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…alse—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…ccurred to me it would be a very easy to make hajj from there. I bought an airline ticket and was in contact with the family of one of my graduate school friends. They would pick me up from the airport and host me during my stay and the days of ritual. Nice plan. So I went to the embassy to get the visa and was denied because (as an American) I needed proof that I was Muslim. How do I prove I have been a practicing Muslim for a decade? I went to t…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…(IDF) and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the latter of which claims over 40 million members. Nahdlatul Ulama, an organization that believes that LGBT people are “deviant,” “a form of perversion,” and “a desecration of human dignity,” called for an anti-gay propaganda law strikingly similar to Russia’s in February 2016. The conservative Muslim organization has since built strong ties with the Jokowi government. The president, who meets frequently with NU me…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ughter Bella was hospitalized.) Organizers said they had distributed 1,800 tickets, and the pews in the church were nearly full, with several hundred, if not nearly a thousand people in attendance. Gingrich was the only candidate to appear; Staver, the “forum’s” moderator took pains to point out that they had invited the other candidates. Santorum and Ron Paul had commitments outside of Florida. Mitt Romney, the candidate Staver and other leaders…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…r than aggression on the part of the adversary, as the casus belli for the military jihad, a position they regarded as unethical and morally impermissible. These revisionist conclusions regarding the historical trajectory of jihad have profound implications for the contemporary period. First, they draw our attention to the multiple meanings of jihad that are prevalent in the literature and challenge a monolithic, reductive understanding of the ter…