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You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

By Haroon Moghul

…e story. We see their suffering, of course—the vile killings, the shocking number of rapes, some of which are so forward, so casually monstrous, thumping down on you so suddenly, that you might find yourself crushed hours later—but we never learn why the war happened, or what the Muslims make of Serbian propaganda. Wars have causes. They are ugly, painful, and often inexcusable—but they are not incomprehensible. These omissions matter because we c…

Julian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing

By Michael J. Altman

…ust blessed the burger. An agnostic man in Indiana claims he lost custody of his kids to his ex-wife because of his lack of religious faith. His wife is a Christian. In Britain, thieves are using Google Earth to target churches with lead roofs they can steal. As currency markets remain unstable in Europe, the price of lead and other metals continues to rise. Elsewhere in the UK, a couple who own a hotel in Cornwall face a civil court for not rent…

Shari’ah is Not the Law

By Amina Wadud

…hari’ah. In both contexts of Muslim majority nation-states and minority in Europe and North America, concerns over shari’ah raise high emotions. I won’t try to unravel all the threads of these debates, some of which are quite tangled, but I would like to try to make some sense of the basics. This is not like trying to teach it to students where problematizing is part of the lesson. This is really just to get ducks in a row, so to speak. I’ll start…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Independent noted in April, Le Pen is not the only right-wing candidate in Europe drawing support from white gay men. Last month Handelsblatt noted that Alice Weidel, an openly gay former Goldman Sachs banker, had been named co-leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party. Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board adopts new guidelines on LGBT refugees Canada’s Immigration and Refugee board announced new guidelines for dealing with cases…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…sition 3. Extremists threatening the world 4. The political unification of Europe 5. Failure of peace attempts in the Middle East 6. The worldwide threat of nuclear weapons. To some, these signs may prove alarming. But as Dr. Hindson noted in the conference, “Biblical prophecy is not designed to scare us, but to prepare us.” The rapture of the saints at the return of Christ is a message of comfort. As Titus 2:13 tells us, we must be “looking for t…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ohammad is prohibited by Islamic law and further that Muslim immigrants in Europe and elsewhere have failed to internalize the democratic value of free speech. Jyllands-Posten, for its part, self-righteously claimed to be heroically rescuing free speech in the face of the fearful self-censorship practiced by Danish writers and artists with respect to criticism of Islam. The incident was portrayed as a clash between the liberal values of an open so…

Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…advanced in the 1920s by intellectuals in the elite salons of America and Europe. Long buried in ignominy after the horrors of the mid 20th century, they have returned from the grave. The only difference is that now the doctrines of the eugenicists are dressed up in the language of “liberty,” “autonomy,” and “choice.” These Manhattan-ites (so distinct from the island of the same name whose sexual license they no doubt fear) believe in a “one-fles…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…Uganda, for instance, the president is saying that homosexuality came from Europe and the West. But an old king of Uganda back in the 1880s was gay, a historical fact that no one disputes. We have that evidence to start with, but the first laws that we had against gays did come with the colonial government. The moment that it took on a postcolonial face is when it became more aggressive. In Africa, we believe that a person is born to have kids and…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…people that have been historically colonized by Christian missionaries and European settlers alike. Corn, for example, is an integral part of Mayan spiritual worldview and ecological practice, believed to be created perfect in its original form by God. For many of the indigenous people surveyed, GM food was outright rejected as an offensive break from natural order and traditional dietary practice. Perhaps not surprisingly, many indigenous people…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…the Reformation proceeded, Protestantism began to morph into a bewildering number of sects, each with its own doctrinal bias, its own interpretation of the Bible, and each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on truth. There was now a clamor of religious opinion in Europe. Systems of thought were privileged over rituals, because it was felt necessary to initiate a litmus test for inclusion (and exclusion). Doctrinal alignment, therefore, differe…