… at least not if the religious right has its way: There is Campus Crusade for Christ’s Military Ministry, which has a permanent staff presence at U.S. military academies and whose directors have referred publicly to U.S. soldiers and Marines as “government-paid missionaries.” Such groups, Weinstein argues, “are the flip side of the Taliban. They’re [...]

Some would say it’s been a while since we had a proper holy war (the kind of conflict that pits believer against believer in a race to see who can be martyred first) – though it seems that others may disagree: the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are jihad or a crusade. If there [...]