Mauree Turner (personal pronouns of “They/Them/Theirs”) is a “Queer, Non-binary, Okie Muslim” elected to Oklahoma’s congress in 2020, the “first non-binary person elected to a state level position in US history.” A former intern in 2017 for the Oklahoma chapter of the Hamas front group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Turner illustrates the previously discussed […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Three)
“…with actual Muslim scholars cowed into silence, the academy yields a crop of ‘progressive’ Muslim profs who teach a deconstructed Islam for the world’s urban progressive elite,” Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown has tweeted. The December 5, 2020, Twitter thread from this American convert to Islam who has become a leading apologist for all […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Two)
“This is an abomination,” tweeted on December 17, 2020, from a since deleted Twitter account, Ismail Royer in response to a “heartwarming gay rom-com” movie, Breaking Fast, for the Muslim Ramadan fast period. This condemnation from a Muslim intellectual formerly convicted on federal terrorism charges demonstrates how a previously discussed conflict between Islamic doctrines and […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part One)
“Standing against the LGBT and other perversions is a form of jihad,” tweeted one Philippine Muslima identified as Umm Yusra on June 8, 2019, while citing the leading Muslim Malay cleric Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri. These and other Muslim social media postings from recent years make all too clear why Muslim parents in Dearborn, Michigan, have […]
New book explores Christian-Muslim differences over the understanding of Jesus’ mother
Catholic author and Crisis Magazine Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons has published along with his wife Suzan a new book with Sophia Institute Press, The Jesse Tree: An Advent Devotion. In it, the Sammons explore various Christological passages in both the Old and the New Testaments as well as their relationship to the seven sacraments. The resulting work is an insightful read for […]
America’s Troubled Middle Eastern Ivory Towers
“Since the earliest days of Americans’ engagement with the Middle East, U.S. officials have looked to Americans associated with the region’s universities to advance U.S. interests,” writes commentator and political veteran Pratik Chougule. His recent, intriguing book, American Universities in the Middle Fast and U.S. Foreign Policy: Intersections with American Interests, details how such policies […]
Rome and Zion (Part Three)
“Is God acting providentially in the emergence of Israel in 1948? I think so, and I think the Catholic magisterium is pointing toward that answer as well,” wrote in 2019 University of Bristol Catholic theology professor Gavin D’Costa. The views of this adviser to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales indicate the increasingly […]
America’s Middle Eastern School Ties
Experienced political analyst and writer Pratik Chougule has written a fascinating new book on the history of American higher education efforts in the Muslim-majority countries of Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Qatar. In American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Intersections with American Interests, Chougule details the record of American university foundings in the wider Middle East, […]
Rome and Zion (Part Two)
The “State of Israel has every right to exist in safety and prosperity” and an “outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism,” stated Pope Francis on October 28, 2015, at the Vatican to visiting World Jewish Congress leaders. Such remarks reveal an ongoing, historic sea change in Catholic views on Zionism, in […]
Rome and Zion (Part One)
The “Zionist State of Israel represents the apostasy of the Chosen People from fidelity to their one True God,” wrote late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior. Recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, Miceli’s book indicates the long-term struggles the Catholic Church has reconciling with Zionism, as […]