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Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…many Hindus) and the displacement of more than 10 million. Among those who left what would become Bangladesh was Rukhsana Hasib, a young secular Muslim whose father—an East Pakistan military officer—was killed by West Pakistani forces. Hasib has recounted with chilling detail the days and weeks in which Bengalis were rounded up by West Pakistani forces and tortured, raped, killed, or disappeared. The Pakistani authorities also worked closely with…

Dispatches From: Inside the Beltway

By Robert P. Jones

…than Democratic voters. And nowhere have Democrats been asked if they were evangelical or born again, despite the fact that in 2006 white evangelicals made up 11.3 percent of the Democratic house vote nationwide, casting slightly more votes for Democratic candidates for example than black protestants. Even noting the source of objections to this practice is a testimony to the new religious landscape. Leah Daughtry, Chief of Staff of the Democratic…

GOP Does Not Stand For “Gay Old Party”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a second time, however, one day over lunch he sighed and said, “I haven’t left the Republican Party, but I feel like it’s left me.” For Peter LaBarbera, president of “Americans for Truth about Homosexuality” the party didn’t leave my friend soon enough. LaBarbera’s group is encouraging its members to contact the GOP’s new leader, Michael Steele, urging him to never, ever, under penalty of … well, a scolding, I suppose – and no more money from AFT…

Taking On The Religious Right…In Kansas? Yes.

By Daniel Schultz

…dy’s calling out right-wing extremism instead of made-up BS about supposed left-wing values. They’re doing it in the context of economic development. Like Holland says, it’s hard enough to encourage growth in a flyover state like Kansas. Why make it harder by convincing people it’s a hotbed of intolerance? (To put it another way, headlines like this are the bane of Mississippi booster clubs.) Last but not least, all of this comes along with a gene…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ashio—the largest town in Burma’s Shan State, near the Chinese border—have left a mosque, an orphanage, and many shops destroyed by Buddhist-identified mobs roaming the streets on motorcycles. Three hundred Muslims have taken refuge in a local Buddhist temple, thousands have fled, and the count of dead and injured is still not clear. In March there were similar riots in Meikitla, in central Burma south of Mandalay, which left forty-four people dea…

Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…, got into the rental with family and drove back to the airport. And I was left with questions. Who told him about the botched abortion? How was it explained? What did he think at first? Was the abortion self-induced or performed by a quack? Did she die of a hemorrhage or infection? What did the rabbi say at the funeral? What would I have done were I the officiant standing at an open grave with a bereft family? I think of these questions because I…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…ared on Fox News, “A lot of it is the antifa folks.” High priests of White evangelicals were not to be left out; Eric Metaxas began waving his retweeting wand to magically transform Trump supporters into heroes “pulling Antifa terrorists away from the building,” and Franklin Graham pronounced, “most likely it was antifa.” It’s important to reflect on this immediate outburst from Trump conservatives to blame Antifa or #BLM for their own supporters’…

Curing Homophobia is the Real Problem

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…it would be beneficial to seek what “causes” others to be heterosexual, or left-handed, or more prone to diabetes — but such research should be left to real scientists, not a state health department, and definitely not to the agenda driven pseudo-scientists that Cohen relies upon. In the end, the arguments over “causes” and “cures” of homosexuality are ridiculous. Having Cohen up against Lowenthal in this interview was equally ridiculous. Perhaps…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…ent. She called his church a “cult” that uses “mental violence.” Not to be left out in denouncing things, Angelina Jolie also condemned the plan. President Obama called it a “recruitment bonanza” for radical Islamic groups. “Recruitment bonanza” sounds more like a white-collar job fair than an act of Islamophobia. Some shoppers buy kosher not for religious practice, but because they think it’s safer. In Poughkeepsie, New York, a local Jewish group…

Values Voter Summit Hits Home

By Ariana Childs Graham

…r thing or if you just need more fiber in your diet, pick your exit: “EXIT LEFT” “EXIT RIGHT.” Now, should you choose to go left, you would be directed to an official site of the Obama-Biden campaign to donate money and receive an Obama-Biden Car magnet. Should you choose to go right, you would be directed to Ron Paul’s “Campaign for Liberty” site. Finding the “values” in this so-called humor has been completely lost on me. All of these little epi…