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Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed on administrative leave this past week after donning a hijab to express solidarity with…

On December 5 th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920 to criticize politicians and call for more stringent gun control and regulation. But that was…

A recent article in the Washington Post recycles well-worn myths about religiosity and Islam. Is this the best we can do?

I’m not arguing that Islamophobia is racist, or that Islamophobes are racists, because that’s not quite what’s happening. For one thing, Islamophobes embrace ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and racists wouldn’t (indeed couldn’t) do the same. But consider the similarities: the Islamophobe must assume Muslims suffer some sort of pre-Islamic inferiority, sufficient to explain how some (largely non-white) people—actually, a lot of people—not only fell for Islam in the first place, but then stayed down. How long do enforced ideologies last? Nazism: twelve years. Communism: some decades. Islam: Fourteen centuries and counting.

After three years of waiting, an Austrian atheist has won the right to wear a colander on his head for a driver’s license photo. But are Flying Spaghetti Monster communities themselves religious?

Australia’s largest state passed a new law that would allow police to demand the removal of any head covering.

The week in religion, poetically.

In praise of religious wardrobe choices.

Why did coverage of the murder of a pregnant Muslim woman merely record the outrage “in the Muslim world”?

MediaCurves conducted a study to examine popular perceptions of women who wear hijab… [*SAHM = Stay at Home Mom.]