- -: Being a Gay Bishop in America - Gene Robinson
September 23, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_Bishop_Gene_Robinson_on_Finding_the_Strength_Within Gene Robinson discusses his experiences as the Episcopal Church's first openly gay Bishop. Robinson recalls wearing a bulletproof vest to his consecration due to numerous death threats. ----- ...
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- -: Sharia Law Replaces Civil Law in Poor Indonesian Islands - Lewis Simmons
November 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/24/Lewis_M_Simons_on_Southeast_Asia_The_Next_Front Lewis M. Simons, journalist and co-author of The Next Front, tells of how Sharia law has supplanted constitutional law in some remote Indonesian islands. The poverty stricken residents have allowed Musli...
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- -: An Ecological Approach to Stopping Fundamentalism - David Sloan Wilson
December 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/17/Great_Issues_Forum_What_Is_Religion The best way to stop fundamentalism? Change the environment that created it, says evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. "If we want to eradicate fundamentalism, there's actually one way - and only one way - to ...
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- -: TNR Editor Wieseltier Takes On New Atheism, Calls Hitchens a "Buffoon"
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Leon_Wieseltier_in_Conversation Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, weighs in on modern atheism, which he describes as a result of the "coarse" religiosity practiced by evangelicals and strongly religious public figures like George W...
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- -: Reactive Defiance: The Overt Religion of Britain's Muslim Youth
March 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/08/The_Great_Issues_Forum_Immigration_and_Islam Sociology professor Tariq Modood describes how percieved cultural stigmas lead young British muslims towards an active, overt embracing of Islam, a trend he calls "reactive defiance." "Any minority that has...
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- -: Does a Lack of Islamic Literacy Fuel Extremism? - Ebrahim Moosa
May 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/20/The_Rise_of_Intellectual_Reform_in_Islam Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, attributes the fundamentalism of extreme Islamists to a lack of literacy about Islamic law and tradition. He says very few resources are put into ...
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- -: 2006 World Cup: Fatwa Demands Sharia Law on the Field
June 15, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/01/The_Glorious_World_Cup_A_Fanatics_Guide Alan Black, co-author of The Glorious World Cup, describes soccer as a powerful cultural entity. He reads a fatwa dictating adherence to Sharia law and strictly "non-Western" behavior on the field that a Saudi A...
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- -: Karen Armstrong on the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate
August 25, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chautauqua_video_sampler_2010 Karen Armstrong, founder of the Charter for Compassion, discusses recent controversy over the planned building of a mosque and Islamic community center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center. Sh...
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- -: Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion
December 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/10/Sam_Harris_Can_Science_Determine_Human_Values Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, discusses the shortcomings of organized religion as a guide for human morality...
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- -: Sam Harris: Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace
December 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/10/Sam_Harris_Can_Science_Determine_Human_Values Author Sam Harris argues that Islam -- like most religions -- is not simply a peaceful faith misrepresented by extremists. "The only problem with Islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam," says...
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