Archive for the ‘Religious Liberty’ Category
US Support for Yousef Nadarkhani Grows as Iran Denies Its Own Apostasy Charges
In a move more reminiscent of a badly regulated nursery than of a foreign power, Iranian officials have now denied that Yousef Nadarkhani is to be executed on charges of apostasy.
Instead, the young Iranian Christian will be executed on charges of rape, treason, and Zionism. Maybe.
Or maybe not; a statement...
October 4th, 2011 | Culture, Evangelicals, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice, The Gospel | Read More
Abdolreza Haghnejad and Yousef Nadarkhani: Christians in Iran
Yousef Nadarkhani still looks set to become the first Christian executed for apostasy in Iran since 1990. Unfortunately, he may be merely the first in a new wave of Iranian persecutions–yet the media has hardly noticed.
Abdolreza ‘Matthias’ Haghnejad, a pastor in the Evangelical Church...
August 26th, 2011 | Culture, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Human Rights, Other, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice | Read More
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is gone: Long Live the Muslim Brotherhood?
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down this morning, and there’s no way to know what will happen next. While one should, on principle, welcome the departure of a tyrant, the fact is the Egyptian people might very well become less free now that Mubarak is gone.
That’s because—as anyone who...
February 11th, 2011 | Culture, Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Human Rights, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice | Read More
An Open Letter To Mohamed Abdel Moniem El-Sawy
An open letter to Mohamed Abdel Moniem El-Sawy:
I must admit, I don’t understand everything about the different segments of your Islamic faith—anymore than I understand everything about all the different denominations of Christianity. But they say actions speak louder than words, and I do understand...
January 11th, 2011 | Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Human Rights, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice, Worldviews | Read More
On Malaysia’s Moderate Muslims and why you should care
A few months ago I decided to take a break from regular blogging to work on finding a more specialized niche in which to fit my naturally charming yet gruffly journalistic self.
It’s gone well, and I’m learning a lot. A lot about Malaysia, where apparently I’m sort of famous, thanks...
October 14th, 2010 | Blogging, Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Media, Other, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty | Read More
Anwar Ibrahim: Not the Bright Spot We’d Hoped For
As Israel struggles to defend itself, Islamist voices around the world still stridently condemn the Jewish state for stopping the flotilla bringing aid to Hamas. Shockingly, one of those voices is Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim — the former media darling and favorite of the foreign-policy teams of...
June 30th, 2010 | Foreign Affairs, Global War on Terrorism, Other Religions, Politics, Religion, Religious Liberty, Social Justice | Read More
The Marriage Muzzle:
Same-Sex Marriage’s Threat to Religious Liberties
When same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, can the government force religious groups to treat it like traditional marriage? Will non-discrimination laws trump five thousand years of tradition? Would Christians be silenced and treated as “bigots” for refusing to accept the normalcy...
October 15th, 2006 | Religious Liberty | Read More
Taliban-Lite:
The Afghan Threat to Religious Liberty
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March 21st, 2006 | Religious Liberty | Read More
Separation and the City: An ‘Inconsistent Conservative’s” View of Religious Liberty
Baylor professor Francis Beckwith has recently come under fire from the crowd over at Panda’s Thumb for his writings on the Establishment Clause. One curious criticism from Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur is that Beckwith is espousing an ‘extreme view” of separationism...
April 17th, 2004 | Religious Liberty | Read More
Religious Liberty Watch: When Property Rights Trump Polity Rights
In his letter to the Corinthian church, the Apostle Paul wrote, ‘
March 9th, 2004 | Religious Liberty | Read More
