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If they can’t shari’ah “there,” how can they get it here?

An open invitation to the House Homeland Security Committee chair.

Three Muslim Americans of Jewish and Irish heritage on Peter King.

The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.

“When you look someone in the eyes, it’s a little harder for them to deny that we should have the same rights.”

Skinny jeans, strip mall haircuts, and leather jacket-clad ambassadors.

There are various levels of nuance to the message that LGBT people are unacceptable to God, and these often pass under the guise of tolerance. One of the most pervasive is the notion of “ welcoming but not affirming.” It is the pinnacle of the soul-destroying practice of theologized tolerance that says, “You are welcome to exist among us, but we cannot affirm the goodness, value or worth of your life( style).” This is a particularly popular discourse among “moderates” who rest proud that they aren’t like Westboro and for whom tolerance seems virtuous.

Those who are ready to send Rob Bell to the hell he purportedly denies have unwittingly confirmed the suspicion of skeptics who want nothing to do with a religion whose practitioners seem to relish every opportunity to squabble, berate, and condemn; who strike a contentious pose on every theological issue; and who have the profoundly mistaken idea that at the heart of the Christian gospel is the doctrine of karma rather than that of grace.

They may be “cool” to King hearings, but that hasn’t translated into condemnation of Islamophobia.

For young Egyptians fighting Mubarak’s rule, the fight really wasn’t fair, so why can’t our kids stand up and address our worsening problems? Have we forgotten that our parents were, to paraphase the Bible, “slaves in America?”