Issues of religion, gender, and mistrust could further complicate efforts to return former fighters to their communities.
Religion
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The Beach Movie of the Absurd
The Burkini fuss isn’t just an embarrassment for France. Diversity is under attack across the West.
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Reverend William Barber Is on a Mission from God: Change the Country’s Moral Narrative
A conversation with the architect of “Moral Mondays” on the struggle for voting rights, Fight for 15, and building toward a third Reconstruction.
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Rubio and Trump Head to Orlando for Anti-LGBTQ Event
Two months after the Pulse nightclub shooting, the two Republicans plan to address some of the country’s most notorious religious conservatives.
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Donald Trump’s Star of David
How the GOP enables the rise of dog-whistle anti-Semitism
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Trump Lays Bare the Moral Bankruptcy of the Religious Right
The movement’s top leaders crown the foul-mouthed casino owner as their savior.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Khalid Latif: A Muslim Imam Speaks Out
At a time when Muslim Americans are under fire on the campaign trail and around the country, a New York University imam has emerged as a national spokesman for a community he says is caught in an “echo chamber” of attacks and counterattacks.
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Europe Goes American, and That Ain’t Good
The same racial, religious, and ethnic tensions that have long divided America are now unraveling Northern Europe’s bonds of solidarity.
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Bernie, Pope Francis, and the Moral Economy
A lay person’s primer on Catholic social teaching.
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Why Bernie’s Socialism Doesn’t Make Him Anti-Zionist
It makes no sense to portray Sanders as leading a charge against Israel.
