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The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…drew Cuomo condemned the anti-Islamic rhetoric of Trump as fundamentally un-American. The United States has a history of intolerance toward religious minorities, including Catholics, but history has also shown that members of disenfranchised groups often do attain high levels of political power. John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic to be elected president in 1960. Barack Obama became the first African American president and, now, we may be on…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…(described inaccurately in the film as honor killings and beheadings of non-Muslims) in the United States. The star of the film, Zuhdi Jasser, is reportedly on Rep. Peter King’s list of witnesses he will call for his hearings on “radical Islam.” Gaffney, who after being shunned by next week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, claimed it was infiltrated by the Brotherhood, serves on the Clarion Fund board. The document is also used in supp…

When Welcoming the Stranger Was Not Just a Religious Value

By Melissa Borja

…sneak into the country as refugees. Americans worried that this largely non-white, non-Christian refugee group would fail to assimilate, drain public resources, and exacerbate unemployment. Public opinion polls showed that the majority of Americans were wary of accepting refugees for resettlement. On the whole, though, the Indochinese Refugee Assistance Program was a success. The Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong Americans who first arrived fo…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er mind about gay couples adopting children and decided to allow a question-of-conscience vote after having dinner with a lesbian couple who care for eight foster children. about adoption, voted against the law but 75 members of her conservative coalition joined left-wing parties in backing the change. Some saw the whole abrupt shift and quick vote as a question of coalition politics that may strengthen her hand in the next election. From the Inde…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…Pilgrim and Indian story, the basis of so many Thanksgiving pageants in the 1900s. The holiday came first, and the mythic 1621 event became a focus only later. However (secondly), as thanksgiving became national, the religious influences gradually diminished. If the early Puritan thanksgiving day consisted of worship and dinner, the modern American holiday is mostly a dinner, plus parades, football, various entertainments, and the growing shadow o…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 (1517 Media, 2022), 147. [2] United States v. Zubaydah. Zubaydah was embroiled in a legal battle with the United States government in the Supreme Court over disclosing the details of his torture. [3] Hilal, Innocent Until Proven Muslim, 59. [4] Charlotte Lawrence and Cyrus J. O’Brien,“Federal Militarization of Law Enforcement Must End,” American Civil Liberties Union, May 12, 2021. A provisio…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…role the Church played in France in 2013 where it helped organize huge anti-marriage-equality protests. Despite changing attitudes, the Church still retains more power in Ireland than most places in Europe. Having run many of Ireland’s social services in the 20th century, most schools are still under its control and almost two-thirds of marriage ceremonies are celebrated in Catholic churches. While the number of Irish people who describe themselve…

Religious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone

By Sarah Posner

…religion or belief. The event was hosted by the Cathedral and the Shoulder-to-Shoulder campaign, an interfaith group that formed in 2010 to push back against rising anti-Muslim rhetoric, particularly around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” the Qu’ran-burning pastor Terry Jones, and the hearings organized by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on “radicalization” in the American Muslim community. Catherine Orsborn, Shoulder-to-Shoulder’s campaign director,…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…se of how wide the net could be. * * * Also on The Cubit: Reading Sam Harris in the age of Trump Follow The Cubit, RD’s religion-and-science portal, @TheCubit…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…x Revolt of 1377, which fed into to the more extensive and more violent Peasants Rising of 1381. As literary historian Steven Justice has shown us, the Rising had everything to do with how ordinary people were using the new media of the day (vernacular spiritual texts for common education and political broadsides for common expression) to “assert the rights of the laity to the intellectual, as to the material, goods of the institutional church.” F…