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November 2012

November 14, 2012

New York Times on gay Pakistan

Altogether now, let's chant: World Ends Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest! Mort Sahl is...

November 13, 2012

Are Salafis the most orthodox among Muslims?

The New York Times published a riveting piece about Salafism in Tunisia. From the beginning,...

November 09, 2012

Man prays in airplane aisle, for no particular reason

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. That was my first reaction when...

November 09, 2012

Innocence of Muslims filmmaker finally sentenced

Of the many curious coverage decisions the mainstream media made this year, I thought the...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

November 06, 2012

And for the Copts, the winner is … the winner is?

First things first: I would like to stress that, while I am a member of...

November 05, 2012

The Hot Dog theory of history

It is touching to see that in spite of everything that has happened over the...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

When Worlds Collide II: Scientology and the Nation of Islam

The 25 October 2012 issue of The New Republic carries a story entitled “Thetans and...

October 26, 2012

Economist offers rare insights into Salafists

I have a friend who once worked for Time (actually, several people fit under that...

October 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 22, 2012

Occupy Poitres

Le Figaro, Le Monde and Libération are France's newspapers of record, the Presse de référence....

October 22, 2012

Bloodshed in Saudi Arabia, for some non-religious reasons

Some of the world's most important religion-news stories are also the hardest for your GetReligionistas...

October 21, 2012

Does the Name “Theophilus” Violate the Establishment Clause?

I got that headline from an interesting discussion at the Center for Law and Religion...

October 19, 2012

Benghazi terrorist hiding in plain sight

I know readers prefer us to harsh on stories rather than praise them, but I...

October 18, 2012

What’s happening in Zanzibar?

It's been about five years since I was last in Zanzibar. I was part of...

October 15, 2012

Dear Brother Powers (a parody)

From the desk of Ayatollah Hassan Sanei Expediency Discernment Council, Tehran Mr. John Powers c

October 11, 2012

The anti-Semitic focus of French terrorism

You may recall media coverage regarding a kosher market in a suburb of Paris that...

October 11, 2012

ABC on Jesus the sky pixie

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live! These words close Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1924 poem "Vladimir...

October 03, 2012

Blaming Islamists for a journalist’s kidnapping

When I first read that journalist Austin Tice had gone missing from Syria after August...

October 02, 2012

Ghosts appear when IKEA disappears women

What's the world coming from if you can't cater to Saudia Arabian consumers by airbrushing...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Crazy Charlie: His cartoons are insane

In this week’s podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed two of my...

September 28, 2012

Missing canaries in the Damascus coal mine

I realize that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish, my concerns about...

September 27, 2012

We’re all blasphemers now

Never a dull moment on the religion news beat. And the latest clash is a...

September 20, 2012

Not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes!?

From The Associated Press comes shocking news: Apparently, not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes. You may...

September 19, 2012

Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoon crassness

Get ready GetReligion readers for the next twist in the Muslim outrage story. Today's issue...

September 17, 2012

Journalism means never having to say you’re sorry

In comments to my post this weekend suggesting a few angles for coverage of Muslim...

September 15, 2012

The missing anti-Muslim movie stories

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, if completely unsurprising, update to the stories about...

September 14, 2012

Combating media myths about Muslims

There are so many stories being written about the tragic assassination of our ambassador...

September 13, 2012

Foggy Bottom’s ‘pantywaist protocol pussy-footers’

Wanted to thank me brokenly, I suppose, for so courteously allowing her favorite brother a...

September 13, 2012

Missing the forest for the YouTube video

Much of the media spent yesterday not getting to the bottom of how the American...