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2013-05-07T18:34:53-05:00

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Greenwald on the latest fishy anti-terror busts

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

Glenn Greenwald's concerns about credibility and value of many of the much touted busts of various "terror plots" on American soil deserve to be pondered carefully. The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who — with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents — allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb at... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:53-05:00

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Educating the disabled

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

Reading the evangelical magazine Christianity Today just now, I was deeply moved by the following report. Why Not College for the Disabled? | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction Russ Kinkade holds up a pen. If it were broken, he says, he would toss it. "So if you objectify people and see they are broken, then it makes logical sense that you would discard them," concludes Kinkade, executive vice president of Shepherds Ministries. Located south of Milwaukee, the... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:53-05:00

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Saints of clay

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

There's an intriguing report on the website of the Chabad-Lubavitch, the most prominent branch of Hasidism (a Jewish mystical movement with much in common with Sufism). A stop-motion animated film has been made for kids telling the story of Israel ben Eliezier (often called the Baal Shem Tov, or "Master of the Good Name"), the Lubavitch movement's founder who lived in 18th century Poland. One of the most unhealthy developments in modern Western culture, in my view, is the near total disappearance of the... Read more

2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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Fascinating podcasts on polygamy in Mormon history

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

Aside from the occasional gorgeous dawn or sunset, the one advantage to commuting 2 1/2 hours each day–which has been a major factor in my near-silence on the blog for the last year or so–is that it allows me to listen to multitude of great podcasts that I might not make time to explore otherwise. Came across a really stimulating series of podcasts on the history of polygamy within Mormonism. There's a wealth of interesting stuff to choose from, but... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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And their “mutawa” carry prayer beads, too

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

There’s an interesting article in The Economist on morality police in Sri Lanka who are cracking down on immodestly dressed women, unmarried couples who smooch in public, and so on. The unexpected twist is that they’re enforcing the Dharma, not Sharia. According to the article, these actions–which are arguably unconstitutional–meet widespread popular approval. Sri Lanka’s moral policing: Rajapaksa’s big cover-up | The Economist Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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Jews and Muslims praying together in Savannah

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

An inspiring event worthy of such a beautiful city. Mosque, synagogue to hold dual services in Savannah | savannahnow.com The city’s oldest Jewish synagogue and oldest Islamic mosque are coming together this weekend, honoring Jewish-Islamic relations. Members of the Masjid Jihad mosque will join the congregation of Mickve Israel for Shabbat Services and dinner Friday at the synagogue. Imam Maajid Ali will speak. [MORE] I’m reminded of a Quranic verse that discusses the moral imperative to uphold religious freedom: Those... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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Unexpected lessons of an edgy statue of the Virgin Mary

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

Not that I fancy myself particularly well informed about the history of Islamic art, but one of my pet peeves is when Muslims universalize contemporary prudishness and/or ideological hangups concerning the arts–not to mention impose them on others, Muslim or otherwise–so I found this article in the Biblical Archaeology Review particularly interesting. It features a nude and very pregnant statue of the Virgin Mary (peace be upon her), split down the middle in the style of an anatomy textbook. The... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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You’re doing a PhD in what??

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

I went back to school a few years ago and–for some inscrutable reason that I’m still trying to work out–did an M.A. in Religion, so this really had me in stitches. (Or was it tears?) It really is criminal how graduate school programs keep churning out humanities PhDs for whom it will be mathematically impossible to land an academic job. (In which case, why spend a decade getting a PhD?) Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:54-05:00

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Tips for Internet-based scholarship

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

I write painfully little these days, but I save huge amounts of online references for future reference–I'm an Internet equivalent of a paranoid backwoods survivalist, except that I'm compulsively hoarding stuff for academic articles one day (I keep telling myself) as opposed to preparing for race war or some pulp fiction Armageddon. Here's how I archive online references: I use the free Evernote and its Firefox plug-in for saving individual quotes from articles I'm reading (along with tags to organize... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:34:55-05:00

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Talk about “foreign money” building a mosque

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:34 pm By Svend White

An inspiring story of an Israeli Jew reaching out to Muslims and Arabs in a most original and unlikely of ways. Israeli millionaire builds mosque in France – Israel Activism, Ynetnews An unlikely benefactor. An Ashkelon resident who made a fortune in the European real estate business has decided to pay for the construction of a mosque in France for the benefit of the local Muslim community. Father of four Robert Harush, 58, grew up in Ashkelon and having completed... Read more

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