Posts tagged: religion
- Swiss Jews support Muslims on minaret ban
- From yesterday’s Jerusalem Post, Jews back Muslims on minaret ban: Citing religious discrimination, a diverse coalition of Jewish organizations is objecting to Switzerland’s ban of minarets on local mosques. Swiss voters this week approved by a strong majority a referendum outlawing the construction of minarets. The measure, pushed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), was [...] [4 Dec 2009]
- Why Switzerland’s Right is Wrong
- From The Bizarre Logic Behind the Swiss Minaret Ban by Yassin Musharbash: One should certainly avoid sugar-coating the sometimes unpleasant situation faced by Christians living in the Muslim world. There is room for criticism. But one should choose the appropriate means. To paint the Swiss referendum against building minarets as an act of solidarity with [...] [3 Dec 2009]
- Rethinking God
- From Karen Armstrong’s Foreign Policy piece: Think Again: God: Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus. As soon as we became recognizably human, men and women started to create religions. We are meaning-seeking creatures. While dogs, as far as we know, do not worry about the canine condition or agonize about their mortality, humans fall very easily [...] [19 Nov 2009]
- Islam and “The Colonized Mind”
- It was the most successful form of colonialism: the colonized mind identified completely with the colonizer. The Javanese had held out for centuries, but finally they had lost. Their idea of there being many paths to God, none better than the other, had broken under the weight of the orthodox Arab injunction about the one [...] [16 Nov 2009]
- Mike Huckabee, Christiofacist
- UPDATE: You may also be interested in The Boston Globe’s editorial Islamofascism’s ill political wind. From the piece: The pairing of “Islam” and “fascism” has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism – indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco Franco [...] [16 Jan 2008]