Religion Dispatches
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…individuals are black. In his contribution, Haroon Moghul satirizes the tendency to blame specific incidents on the collective malice of the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims. Moghul flipped the script, giving Muslims credit for a laundry list of innovations, which helps to bring the absurdity of monolithic blaming into focus. And Xarissa Holdaway looked at how racially-inflected blaming morphs into vengeance in the American prison system. 3. Beware of…
Read More…rnment’s goal of preventing unintended pregnancies is therefore somehow misguided. “Some women welcome ‘unintended’ pregnancies, and some ‘intended’ pregnancies end in abortion due to complications or a change in a woman’s social situation,” they write. That’s true, of course, but doesn’t therefore prove that there’s no such thing as an unintended versus intended pregnancy. Ask any woman. The brief questions whether getting contraceptives for free…
Read More…dress of their countries of ancestral origin, go up to a mountain right around sundown, with telescopes, binoculars, and lotas, wearing shalwar qamiz, to see if they can see the first crescent moon, which marks the beginning of the lunar month (in this case of Ramadan). Guess what happens? A: It’s Eid, but not for Muslims so much as for the local police department. Ramadan + deportation: Bonus points on Pakistan International Airlines. Which, lik…
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…g all the education and experience you can while devising ingenious workarounds and coping strategies for challenges like gendered pay disparities ($.77 on the dollar), limited access to reliable, affordable child care, absence of paid maternity leave (the U.S. being one of three nations in the world not to guarantee it), and history of religious teachings in your own tradition against women working outside the home. 5. Type up letter-perfect resu…
Read More…truction), who insist that Western civilization is locked in a cosmic battle with Islam. In a video appearance at the Freedom Federation conference at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University last year: Danny Danon, a Likud Party member of the Knesset and Chairman of World Likud who recently likened President Obama to Pharaoh, added that “we know you love us and want to commend you for unconditional support for state of Israel,” maintaining that “Christ…
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…nd of course, there is an obvious connection going on here to the riddling competition which is being staged inside the game world of New Cap City as the cross-dressing MC tests the mettle of Daddy Adama, consistently defends Tamara’s honor and memory against the kind of “sick game” that Daddy Graystone is subjecting the Zoebot to in cross-cutting scenes. I particularly loved the scene between the two Adama brothers this week. Sam’s discussion of…
Read More…like the best thing I could imagine to overcome all these unknowns: a hajj guide recommended highly by a friend with details that suited my personality. Things like: we went here first and there last, because it limits the lines and confusion; we sat here at this time to do this, this way; and were offered this, here, with these accommodations; working this and avoiding that, and no hassles here. Great. But then it turned out the hajj guide was no…
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…stian majority claiming to proudly promise Jews full acceptance and integration as equals in a religiously pluralistic society. But as the Christian nationalist movement grows and its foundational supremacism becomes more pronounced, the part before the dash in ‘Judeo-Christian’ is turning out to be, at best, contingent for them….
Read More…d For You.” (Note to self: thatjewdiedforyou.org still available.) It’s like JfJ are PETA now…willing to do anything for publicity. I fully expect them to open a Jesus deli downtown: ThatJewCooksForYou.com As one friend put it: “It’s got potential. Kosher style. Lamb-of-God chops. Wood-smoked bacon.” The upside there is that it’d pit PETA against JfJ in a tasteless deathmatch. …
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