30 Good Minutes – Melissa Rogers – Free Exercise for All

Interview is conducted by my friend Wajahat Ali from Goatmilk. Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial in Kuala Lumpur on sodomy charges for a second time, speaks to journalist Wajahat Ali about the controversy and discusses the country’s ethnic and religious conflicts as well as issues facing the Muslim world. Q&A: Anwar Ibrahim discusses trial, Muslim issues – CNN.com.

Article | First Things. Though popular with secularists and religious conservatives, anti-Sharia legislation does not defend against theocracy but calls into question our society’s fundamental commitments to meaningful religious liberty and meaningful access to the courts. These commitments have been relied on by generations of Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews, and to try to remove them for Muslims both is unjust to Muslims and sets a dangerous precedent for other religious groups.

and then arrests the people they supported. This piece in the WaPo offers some insight as to what happened with case of the Miami Moors (also the Seas of David). I know this hasn’t gone to trial, so I can’t say whether it was entrapment or not. These guys were apparently up to no good, but a bunch of hoodlums don’t make a terrorist cell. It’s just following a pattern of behavior from this administration that seems to take the threat of terrorism as a tool to increase control over the population. It makes us less as people (like our…