In the News: TLC, THC, OMG!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
a review of religion and media
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news. Continue Reading →
A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news. Continue Reading →
Rupinder Mohan Singh reflects on the changed meaning of the word “terrorist” after an attack on Sikh-American Dr. Prabhjot Singh. Continue Reading →
By Ann Neumann In one-inch letters the headlines told us what we were seeing: SAVAGES. Continue Reading →
It may be altogether historically inaccurate, but the equation of abortion to slavery is a compelling argument for abortion foes. Like presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. Continue Reading →
In his review of Kenan Malik’s From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath, Dan Margolis argues that tolerance for other faiths and cultures — multiculturalism — has prevented liberals from successfully working for or even believing in absolute human rights. Posted at Guernica:
Of course, most Muslims are not terrorists, so the question arises: Who becomes a terrorist and why? We know that most of these people have been well off, at least middle class, and well educated. According to Malik, the separation foisted by multiculturalism provided fertile ground for identity politics, mixed with a culture of grievance, to grow into jihadist terror. Young people in the “Muslim community,” instead of fighting racism—how could one fight against inequality when the whole idea of a cohesive society was out the window?—found themselves fighting against their parents’ version of Islam; in short, the rebelled by becoming more pious, more “Islamic” than anyone else.
Dr. John Sentamu, the new Archbishop of York, the second-highest official in the Church of England, and the Church’s first black Archbishop, announced his receipt of racist threat letters, some Continue Reading →
An Islamic civil rights group has accused the U.S. border patrol of religious profilingafter American Muslims returning from a religious conference were stopped, searched, photographed and fingerprinted becase, as a spokeswoman Continue Reading →