By Paul Kiefer, Dana Terry, and Anita Rao / WUNC Radio / July 15, 2019 One of Imam Shane Atkinson’s first face-to-face encounters with Muslims took place while he was working at a tannery in Sturgis, Mississippi. During his time in that town, Atkinson – a working-class, white Mississippian Continue Reading
A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam
Aysha Khan / Religion & Politics / July 16, 2019 Once a fringe argument restricted to extreme anti-Muslim corners of the internet, the idea that Islam is not actually a religion, and therefore does not qualify for religious liberty protections, has rapidly gained salience in mainstream Continue Reading
Despite Trump’s Guantánamo Threats, Americans Who Joined ISIS Are Quietly Returning Home
Robin Wright / The New Yorker On June 5th, eight Americans were quietly flown home from the former ISIS caliphate in Syria. The two women and six minors, whose identities were not disclosed, are now being resettled at unnamed locations with help from the U.S. government. They are not the first Continue Reading
Is Christianity Losing to Islam?
Paul Seabright The story of religious competition is not one of ideological struggle between Christianity and Islam. It is one of growing corporatization, with local and folk religions everywhere being gradually but inexorably replaced by churches and mosques that are affiliated with two of Continue Reading
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