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Two Views: Canada, India & An “Inconvenient” Assassination?

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1. A Murder, a Diplomatic Dust-Up and the Risk of Impunity

By Nicholas Kristof

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Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh temple in British Columbia. Then the president of the temple, a Canadian citizen and an activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stepped out and climbed into his pickup truck to drive home for dinner with his family.

The two waiting men, wearing masks, fired through Nijjar’s window about a dozen times. Temple members bravely ran after the gunmen, who escaped in a getaway car driven by a third man.

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Jamelle Bouie Nails the GOP’s Criminality & Contempt for Law & the Constitution

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New York Times, June 13, 2023

50 Years of Republican history in a convincing, chilling thumbnail

Why have only a few elected Republican officials rejected Trump? Columnist Jamelle Bouie highlights scholarly views that “strong loyalty to an institution like a political party might lead a dissenting or disapproving individual to hold on to his or her membership even more tightly, for fear that exit might open the door to even worse outcomes.”

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J. Edgar Hoover: A Pillar of White Christian Nationalism

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Religion News Service: For FBI legend J. Edgar Hoover, Christian nationalism was the gospel truth, argues new book

In The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover, Stanford professor Lerone Martin details how the longtime FBI director shaped the belief in America as a Christian nation.

March 10, 2023 — By Bob Smietana

(RNS) — Lerone Martin’s new book began with a cup of coffee that led him to sue the FBI.

While working on a book about religious broadcasters, a colleague suggested over coffee that Martin, a religion scholar, research the FBI to see if they had any related files. At the time, the colleague, scholar William J. Maxwell, author of “F.B. EYES,” had been studying the FBI’s surveillance of Black writers. Perhaps the FBI had been keeping an eye on religious broadcasters as well. Continue reading J. Edgar Hoover: A Pillar of White Christian Nationalism →