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September 2012

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

Missing the forest for the YouTube video

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

September 11, 2012

Righteous Religious Indignation in Cairo

There are conflicting reports coming out of Egypt and Libya tonight on the attacks on...

September 10, 2012

Peaceful, conservative, moderate, Islamist clerics killed

Mali has been full of interesting, if tragic, religion news recently and this most recent...

September 07, 2012

Sex and the Single Indian

The BBC's inability to comprehend religion is not a new story at GetReligion. Often as...

September 05, 2012

Is it race or religion at issue in Burma?

What is driving the violence in Burma? Race or religion? And can the two be...

September 03, 2012

Surprising twist in Pakistani Christian child’s blasphemy case

A few weeks ago, we looked at coverage of the arrest of an 11-year-old Christian...

September 01, 2012

Michelle Obama as political art

Is this Spanish news magazine cover of Michelle Obama art or porn? Is it racist...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Are there Muslim evangelists?

How far should the press go to acculturate their overseas news stories -- to make...

August 24, 2012

BBC bias? Sharia Law and Egypt

Above all – Allah is our goal... The shari'a, then the shari'a, and finally, the...

August 22, 2012

Got news? Bavarian rabbi in legal trouble for WHAT?!

With GetReligion's move to the Patheos universe, it's highly likely that this here weblog has...

August 22, 2012

Where have all the foreign correspondents gone?

“Truth is true only within a certain period of time,” observed a spokesman for the...

August 21, 2012

Skinny-dipping in the most holy and venerated Sea of Galilee

I believe it was President Obama who once said something about the press corps in...

August 20, 2012

Pakistan’s blasphemy law targets 11-year-old Christian

It is a common critique that residents of one country are disinterested in the goings...

August 19, 2012

Pod People: Goofy Catholics and Mercy for Murderers

In this week’s podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed three recent GetReligion...

August 17, 2012

Who determines who is a Jew?

In his 2008 Atlantic review of Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite Christopher Hitchens...