Tuesday, 17 February 2015

On Monday 16 February 2015


On Monday’s New York Times, I wrote a fairly innocuous sentence that was upsetting to some: “Islam is as American as the rodeo.”
The comments I received would not surprise anyone who writes about religion (among the printable: “Why don’t you go see ‘American Sniper’ and model yourself after a man who understood the reality of radical and not-so-radical Islam…”), but they did provide a window into the violent notions underlying the rising tide of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

Source : Religion Dispatches
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On January 3, 2013, newly-reelected Rep. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona’s 9th District stood before John Boehner and placed her hand not on the Bible, as 112 congressional classes before her had, but rather on a worn copy of the U.S. Constitution. In so doing, Sinema became the only nominally unreligious representative in Congress as well as an indicator of changing national attitudes towards the intersection of politics and religion.


Source : Harvard Political Review
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But it is the Middle East and the Fertile Crescent that is the most, well, fertile area for antique urbanity. Not that this makes the job of firmly planting a flag on the oldest city any easier. Cities in this region have not shouted their claims, or investigated them, or tried to trade them for the tourist dollar, as energetically as have the big hitters in ancient city fame, such as Rome, Athens or even Cirencester.


Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk
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