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Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…appear to be syncretic, combining Christian and pre-Christian symbols. The sign of the cross is ubiquitous in witch rituals and some blessings require candles purchased from a church. However, the summer solstice is considered an important day for working magic and some rituals require the sacrifice of a chicken to faeries and other spirits. These elements suggest that witchcraft was in Romania long before the arrival of Christianity. In 1947, Kin…

Confusion Reigns on Cairo Streets

By H.A. Hellyer

…e violence upon themselves. On the other side, many took the violence as a sign that there would be no peaceful transition over the coming months—rather, that anti-government protestors could expect to be arrested in the weeks and months ahead. In yet another camp, one could see the skepticism about the protestors being even able to take power if they ever wanted to, as disorganized as they are. In the midst of all of this, there are all sorts of…

Violence Came To Tahrir Square With Pro-Mubarak Protests

By H.A. Hellyer

…e them a password to speed things up at the next checkpoint, and we send a sign to the next check-point to let them know all is well. Today, we’ve added something less: are you with him, or against him? It was a different mood than yesterday. In traditional Muslim societies, its often been taken for granted that the existence of a bad ruler is better than no ruler at all—tyranny with security was better than anarchy. As such, by and large, religio…

Mubarak Will Not Run for Re-Election (Updated)

By The Editors

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Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…srael moved closer to the United States in the 1960s when the Soviet Union signaled that it would back the Arab world. The mainstream Israeli left, perhaps best represented by Haaretz, supports the uprising for democracy and removal of Hosni Mubarak as a positive shift in Middle East politics. A January 31 editorial, while not explicitly calling for the removal of President Mubarak, hopes that movements for democracy in other autocratic nations in…

When Nazi Comparisons are “Civil”

By Sarah Posner

…one of the document’s first enthusiastic signers, urged people not only to sign it, but to read Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, which he called “prophetic in its application to today.” Indeed the Manhattan Declaration itself, dressed up as a celebration of “life,” hauls out the trope that abortion is like genocide or holocaust, and claims that LGBT rights infringe on (real) Christians’ religious freedom. In his video released in conjun…

Atheists and Christians Compete to Give More

By Lauri Lebo

…. (Jam. 1:27)” While I have not joined a team, the contest motivated me to sign up for Kiva. My modest donation of $25 went to a Cambodian woman to fund a portion of the $1,000 worth of equipment she needs to start her bakery. Once her loan is repaid, I will be able to recycle my $25 to help fund another project for another individual. And on it goes. I’m sure the recipients of these micro-loans don’t really care all that much about lenders’ motiv…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…young man showed up at one of our services recently and, as part of his assignment, interviewed me on the policies and polity of the UCC after service. Since he was asking a lot of questions, I decided to ask him one. This was before Congress finally overturned the 17-year-old policy during their lame duck session last December. The religious right claims the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would jeopardize the religious freedom of chaplains who…

Whew!

By Lauri Lebo

…d Kirk Cameron on his show Wednesday night as an “expert” on the religious significance of the recent bird deaths in Arkansas. I’m sure readers will be relieved to know that the fundamentalist Christian, who has created something of a cottage industry with his hysterically clueless attacks on evolution and Charles Darwin, makes it clear that the Second Coming is still a long way off. Watch it here. TV Guide provides analysis here. While we can all…

Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

By Sarah Posner

…s nuclear threat, at the Heritage Foundation, and about how the film being promoted by a former colleague of World Net Daily’s Aaron Klein, who was one of the first conservative writers to jump on the conspiracy train: lest you forget, that line of thinking goes, Mohamed ElBaradei, while head of the IAEA, let Iran off the hook on its nuclear ambitions; ElBaradei’s OK with the Muslim Brotherhood; therefore he must be behind the plot to install a nu…