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Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy

Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy

contributors

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Trump is no churchgoer. But for evangelicals, his hard right line on Israel and machinations against Iran make him an instrument of the endtimes. Welcome back, Gog and Magog. I can’t say that I’ve missed you. You might remember the Gog and Magog […]

Christians
Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Juan Cole

First corporations were people, then they could donate anonymously to political campaigns, now they control your private parts

Fundamentalists
Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?

Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?

contributors

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 to steal jobs and rape women. The Islamic State, cofounded by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is taking over the globe. “Our country’s […]

Christians
Newt Should Check out Mike Pence’s Christian Sharia

Newt Should Check out Mike Pence’s Christian Sharia

Juan Cole

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 answer yes, they should be deported. You can’t deport US citizens, so the whole remark was ridiculous. Sharia for Muslims is the equivalent […]

Fundamentalists
Not just Trump:  Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy

Not just Trump: Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy

contributors

Bridge | (Infographic) – – Via Bridge

Christians
Trump’s SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

Trump’s SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

Juan Cole

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 of his two closest rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who more or less tied at between 22 and 23 percent each. Trump […]

Christians
Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

contributors

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 Christians and Muslims worship the same God, quoting Pope Francis. Wheaton justifies its punishment of Dr. Hawkins theologically, stressing inviolable differences between Islam […]

American Jews
Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion

Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion

Juan Cole

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 worst and most shameful detours of the American Republic in the past. From the mid-nineteenth century racial theory became prominent in European and […]

Christians
Roof, Dear and Tashfeen Malik:  ‘Self-Radicalized,’ ‘Terrorism,’ ‘Lone Wolf’ and Double Standards

Roof, Dear and Tashfeen Malik: ‘Self-Radicalized,’ ‘Terrorism,’ ‘Lone Wolf’ and Double Standards

Juan Cole

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 allegedly shot nine persons dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015, there was strong resistance on the part […]

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