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Archives: Christians
Were Kansas White Terrorists Self-Radicalized? or was it Trumpism?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Tim Potter and Amy Renee Leiker of The Kansas City Star report that 3 southwest Kansas men were arrested Friday after an 8-month…
Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?
John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border…
Newt Should Check out Mike Pence’s Christian Sharia
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Newt Gingrich suggested late last week on cable tv that Muslim Americans should be asked if they believe in "sharia" and if they…
Not just Trump: Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy
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In rebuke to Europe, Pope brings 3 Syrian Muslim Refugee Families to Vatican
Rome Reports | (Video News Segment) | - - "In total, he is taking 12 people with him. They are all from Syria." Rome Reports: " Pope takes three refugee families with…
Trump’s SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Billionaire bigot Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary Saturday with about 32.5 percent of the vote. He was about ten points ahead…
Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?
By Damon F. Lynch | (Informed Comment) | - - Evangelical university Wheaton College has generated global attention by suspending and initiating the firing of Professor Larycia Hawkins. She had asserted that…
Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other bigots on the far right are nothing new in American history. Rather, they remind us of the…
Roof, Dear and Tashfeen Malik: ‘Self-Radicalized,’ ‘Terrorism,’ ‘Lone Wolf’ and Double Standards
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Federal officials are now investigating the San Bernardino massacre as an "act of terrorism" rather than just workplace violence. But when Dylann Roof…
Will the US Catholic Church Divest from Fossil Fuels, buy Solar Panels?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his White House address on Wednesday, Pope Francis again brought up the urgent issue of global warming, climate change is a problem…
Why the Pope and America won’t leave each Other Unchanged
By Massimo Faggioli | (The Conversation) | - - The papal trip to the United States that Francis will begin on September 22 is the most difficult of his pontificate so far.…
What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from prison on Tuesday after having been jailed for 5 days for contempt of court because…
Invented Traditions: No, Christianity doesn’t forbid Abortion
By Larry Badendyck | (Informed Comment) | - - Let me put this right up front. There is nothing whatever either in the Bible or in the canonical, fundamental assertions of…
Huckabee’s virtual Genocide: erases Palestinians from West Bank, declares it “Israel”
IMEMC | - - US presidential contender Mike Huckabee said during a visit to Jerusalem, on Wednesday, that he did not consider the West Bank occupied by Israel. The Republican and Baptist…
Muslim-Americans raising $100K to Rebuild burned Black Churches
Nik Zecevik and Margaret Howell | (TheLipTV2 Video) | - - "Respond With Love" a Muslim charity has raised nearly [$90,000] $45,000 to aid black churches that were burned down during the…
If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Seven African-American churches have burned down in the past week and at least four of these southern Black churches were victims of deliberate…
No, GOP, biblical Marriage was not between one man and one woman
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The freak-out by the Republican presidential candidates over the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage provokes me to revise and reprise the points…
Pope to Developed World: Greed is Causing Climate Change, Inequality
Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - Leader of Catholic Church says the richest owe the poorest a 'great social debt' for creating the climate crisis, ignoring warnings…