Michael T Miller-Wierzbicki

The Hamitic-Arabs of America: Unearthing America’s Forgotten Muslims A book by Fathie bin Ali Abdat tells the fascinating story of Professor Muhammed Ezaldeen and his unique American Islamic religious movement.

Seems like an important piece of the puzzle. Looking forward to reading this

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Letter by famed Jewish mystic sells for nearly $400,000 at auction Ramchal manuscript was quietly sold by Jewish Theological Seminary during financial crisis; scholar decries transfer of text to private owner as a 'scandal'

A letter by Chaim Luzatto, the Ramchal, was sold privately from JTS's manuscript collection in what has been called a "scandal"

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The Church Has Fallen: Chapnin Declares Moscow Patriarchate “No Longer Christian” In a searing interview, the well-known Russian scholar and former church insider calls Kirill’s organization “a cheap para-religious cult” serving Putin.

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Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still...

Fascinating and poignant story about a family of Old Believers who lived alone in the Russian forest for 44 years. Only one is still alive (and costing Russia millions to keep alive as a national treasure)

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"We already have abundance in the world, but Elon Musk and Trump just slashed USAID. If we're not feeding poor people in Africa and the Middle East right now, why does anyone think the tech oligarchs are going to help us once their AI has destroyed all jobs and they no longer have a need for us?"

Bushwick’s Cult Children Are Fighting Your Honor, “Defendants are not the heir apparent to Isa Muhammad.”

Intriguing article on Dwight York and the Nuwaubian Nation. York apparently made music and had a minor hit in the 80s (video in the article!) so its semi- #hebrewisraelitemusic grime-square.com/2025/01/01/b...

Sorry to say this but hasnt that already been tried? Does anyone expect it to start working now? Anyone who sides with it would be putting their own future in the hand of the kind of revenge Trump is dishing out. New tactics are needed.

Interesting: new research on Black-owned vegan restaurants

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"At least nine mosques and Islamic centres had reported vandalism or serious security incidents requiring police involvement"

The Return of the Jewish Question At the gut level, most of our politics can be reduced to a simple question: “Whose fault is it?” Conservatives and liberals blame one another, nationalists point the finger at globalists, and for the ...

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Men guilty over gun attack plot on Manchester Jewish community Two men planned an attack in Greater Manchester and a third man failed to report the plan.

BBC News - Men guilty over gun attack plot on Manchester Jewish community - BBC News
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Just received: a short Black Hebree Israelite booklet from Rabbi Robert Devine's organisation. Unclear when it was published or how many copies exist, but this is the only one i know of. From a brief perusal of the contents i believe its early 1960s.

People without History are Dust.

Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the overlooked stories of Queer Jews in the Holocaust, deepening our understanding of identity, survival, and memory.

Read more: bit.ly/483yOtz

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The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

The excellently named Nerd Reich podcast has some important recent episodes on the theobro-techbro coalition, and the "tescreal" new religion of silicon valley, which help to illuminate some of the new directions of US politics and elite culture www.thenerdreich.com

Subjugated Voices and Religion | Equinox Publishing This critical and timely volume brings marginalized voices to the center of religious studies, theological and spirituality discourses. The volume is co-edited by two scholarly friends, one a Jew, the...

Looks good: subjugated voices and religion

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Blasphemy on Prime Time TV: “Case No. 9” Dares to Show Pakistan’s Darkest Truth A popular television series confronts viewers with the forbidden theme of false accusations of blasphemy and the risk of being lynched by mobs.

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Violent fascists resurface in the British Democrats – HOPE not hate Figures with violent pasts are gravitating to the British Democrats, a fascist political party seeking to embed itself within the growing anti-migrant protest movement Emerging...

🚨 NEW: Figures with violent pasts are gravitating to the British Democrats, a fascist political party seeking to embed itself within the growing anti-migrant protest movement.

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“The Serpent’s Tale”: Kuṇḍalinī Without a Leash Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen refuse to tell us what Kuṇḍalinī “really” is. And yet we may end up knowing more about Kuṇḍalinī than we ever dared to ask.

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US leader of global neo-Nazi terrorist group signals retribution for arrests Rinaldo Nazzaro says detention of suspected Base members in Spain justifies ‘resistance … by any means necessary’

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BASR Bulletin 147 | November 2025 The November 2025 edition of the BASR Bulletin is available here: BULLETIN 147-minDownload

The new British Association for the Study of Religion Bulletin features my review of Michael Muhammad Knight's important new book on the Supreme Wisdom Lessons, the foundational scripture of the Nation of Islam and its offshoots like the 5%ers. basr.ac.uk/2025/11/28/b...

A Black Hebrew Israelite group in NC are causing problems for local shop owners. No indication of what camp they hail from.

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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’ The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

The wages are definitely surprisingly low; but the conditions afaik are reasonable (and theres a good amount of public holidays). Dont get me started on Grzegorsz Braun though...

However there has been antisemitic grafitti equating Jews with Nazis in several highly visible locations on a major bridge over the vistula for months now, no sign of it being removed

New US ambassador condemns "grotesque falsehood" that Poles responsible for the Holocaust

The new US ambassador to Poland has condemned the "grotesque falsehood" that Poles were to blame for the Holocaust.

Thomas Rose, who is himself Jewish, also said that Poland is today “the safest country in Europe for a Jew to walk the streets”.

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

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Jewish conservatives are looking to JD Vance to draw a line against the antisemitic right. He hasn't delivered. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency “I’m willing to be patient — but only so patient,” said one attendee at a Tikvah event.

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Early Twentieth Century New Black Religious Movements in the United States Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Early Twentieth Century New Black Religious Movements in the United States

New book on early 20th c US Black religions. Free download for 2 weeks. Looks great

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Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like

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Cross and Crescent in Crisis: Is There a Persecution of Christians in Nigeria? President Trump’s remarks have sparked an international controversy, lacking nuance and full of misunderstandings.

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