Thursday, November 21, 2024

This Week in Religion - Dearborn Muslims may have voted for Trump. But they are wary of his presidency

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A restaurant with people gathered for an election viewing party.

Editor's note:

Perhaps the biggest religion story to come out of the 2024 elections was that of the Muslim vote. For months, Arab Americans and Muslims around the country had been warning Democrats their vote would be a protest vote over the Biden administration’s continued support of Israel in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to exit polling from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, 53% of Muslim voters nationwide voted for third-party candidate Jill Stein. Only about 1 in 5 voted for former President Donald Trump (21%) or Vice President Kamala Harris (20%). Dearborn, Michigan, home to one of the largest Arab American communities, went Republican for the first time since 9/11. But for many Muslim supporters of Trump, the choice was always an ambivalent one. “We can’t forget that he wanted to, you know, deport all Muslims and stop Muslims from coming into the country,” one Dearborn resident told Nargis Rahman in her reporting for RNS. “Nothing was going to result in a victory for this community,” said another.

A portrait of Holly Meyer, Religion News Editor at The Associated Press.
 

Religion News

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff brings touchdowns and Jewish teachings to predominantly Mormon school

This year’s 9-1 football season for Brigham Young University, the Utah school run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an unexpected player at the helm: its first Jewish quarterback. Jake Retzlaff, a junior college transfer, has earned a hero’s embrace by rabbis and others in the tiny but tight-knit Jewish community in Provo. By Hannah Schoenbaum/The Associated Press

Rabbinical group calls for stopping offensive military aid to Israel

Israel continues to block the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. A group of American rabbis says the U.S. should refuse sending Israel more offensive munitions. By Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service

Religion is well-suited for terrifying and entertaining thrill-seeking moviegoers, as exemplified by the new horror movie, “Heretic” starring Hugh Grant. Horror has had a decades-long attraction to religion, Christianity especially, notably the 1970s “The Exorcist” and “The Omen.” By Holly Meyer/The Associated Press

A group of people in traditional Buddhist robes.

Today he’s a high school football player. Soon, he’ll be at a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas

A U.S.-born Buddhist lama celebrated his 18th birthday with an elaborate enthronement ceremony attended by hundreds of people. It's the last big party for Jalue Dorje before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, far from the Minneapolis suburb where he grew up as a typical American teen. By Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski/The Associated Press

With sudden death of Sharath Jois, practitioners of Ashtanga yoga look to his legacy

Jois died suddenly of a heart attack while hiking with students in the Blue Ridge Mountains. By Richa Karmarkar/Religion News Service

 

Commentary and Analysis

Despite assumptions to the contrary, Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes a scholar of Indigenous cultures. By Shannon Toll for The Conversation

Here are some facts you may not know about the nonreligious. By Jana Riess/Religion News Service

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural. By Lisa Bitel for The Conversation

The Supreme Court's approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, adding to uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana's. By Charles J. Russo for The Conversation

 
Sikh devotees light clay lamps next to a pond. The walls lining the pond are filled with many small clay lamps that give the scene a warm tone.

Sikh devotees light clay lamps next to the pond surrounding the Golden Temple as they celebrate the birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak, in Amritsar, India, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)

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