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CIA Director Mike Pompeo, picked to be the next secretary of state, smiles after his introductions before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State, Thursday, April 12. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)>
Need to know: Friday, April 13, 2018
Muslims find Jews standing behind them in opposition to Pompeo’s confirmation
Members of both faiths want to hear if Trump's nominee for secretary of state will repudiate his anti-Muslim views.
Clergy reject Missouri bill on concealed guns in churches
But two committees in the state's House of Representatives have already approved the bill — along party lines — with Republicans voting in favor.
Taqiyya: How an obscure Islamic concept became an anti-Muslim obsession
The doctrine that allows Muslims to hide their faith to escape persecution has become a popular way for Islamophobes to impugn the faith.
An 8-year-old’s rape and murder inflames tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India
Police say Asifa Bano was killed in a Hindu temple, and that the temple’s custodian plotted her death as a way to torment the Bakarwals, a Muslim tribe in Northern India.
Could armed Jews have prevented the Holocaust?
"The idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is," writes RNS columnist Jeffrey Salkin.
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What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
(RNS) — It also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust — substantially less than the historically accepted figure, which is closer to 6 million.
‘Queer Disbelief’ pairs atheists and LGBTQ communities as allies
(RNS) — Queer activist and atheist Camille Beredjick calls for an alliance based on mutual goals of equality and acceptance.
Christian group asks Netflix to pull ‘13 Reasons Why’ after teen suicides
(RNS) — The American Family Association and other critics say the popular series, which will soon begin its second season, glamorizes suicide.
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The Vietnam War revisited
(RNS) — Looking back, I feel guilty for being so stupid and burying myself in books rather than being part of the historic events of my time.
‘Doubting Thomas’ story is about gratitude, not doubt
Post-enlightenment Christians read this as a story of dogma and doubt. But it is actually a story of thanks.
4 reasons Republicans should be hella worried, and not just because of the midterms
(RNS) — Republicans still appeal to older white Christian voters who have less than a college education, says a new Pew study. The problem for the GOP is that these voters are fast becoming thin on the ground.
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