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The foul-mouthed businessman still has a few reliable allies going to bat for him.

Most principled atheists do not go beyond simple denial. They refuse to go further, to seriously question the ground beneath their feet. And, by holding on, consciously or not, to their unjustified assumptions, they end up rejecting far too little.

By repeatedly asking what was in his heart, the FBI seems to have, not only sought to establish intent, but assumed that Muslim militancy is directly related to religion. Moreover, its operative assumption about religion was an implicitly Protestant one which conceived religion as an inward experience (faith) rather than the more Islamic conception of religion as the moral standard by which people ought to be judged. While the FBI was trying to ascertain the intent of Mohamud’s heart, Mohamud himself, by FBI’s own account of events, appears to have been preoccupied with creating sensational headlines.

The origin of Islam in America is through Muslim slaves brought over hundreds of years ago from Africa.

An Election ’08 Manifesto for Messiness: A tart plea for nuanced religion coverage…

David Noebel makes Tea Party movement warnings of the anti-Americanism of liberals and Democrats feel like an unbroken conspiratorial thread from the Cold War to the Obama presidency.

Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed.

The less attention we give to the matter of niqab in European and North American public space, the more effective we are in removing it as a topic of interest…

if you are a true devotee, you can follow Gilbert’s steps to to Italy, India, and Indonesia—as a solo pilgrim, as some have done, or as a member of a tour costing a cool $19,795. Or, alternatively, you could do what seems just as rewarding: savage the movie and book on the Internet.

The best-selling scholar says that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an, that religious fundamentalism is political, and more.