Yes, the Navy Yard Shooter Was a Buddhist
Despite the fact that, like Buddhism, Islam prohibits murder, the two are treated quite differently when it comes to its adherents committing acts of violence.
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Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology
Individual and group understandings of their ontological positions are ignored to everyone’s peril when we relegate theology to historical study.
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Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?
Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true…
Read MoreNYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”
How Islamophobia makes us less safe.
Read MoreLindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”
… and jihad and sharia…
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Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege
When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage.
Read MoreNews Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority
Worsening situation of Burma’s Muslims is instructive.
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Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity
With apologies to Reza Aslan, he is not an unbiased scholar of the historical Jesus, or of the history of Islam, or of any other phenomenon in the study of religion. Nor is any Christian or Jewish scholar, or any liberal or conservative scholar. I just wish he had said so.
Read MoreUpdate: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan
In which the author of a new Jesus bio repeatedly addresses his Muslim background.
Read MoreMaureen Dowd’s Reductio Ad Islam
The Times columnist and Saudi Arabia have at least this in common: They like to deny women agency.
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