Author: Varvara Vasyanova

Yasir Qadhi defends the Muslim community.

By Varvara Vasyanova – To earn extra money to ease his family’s poverty, Watchara Sriaoun traveled in 2020 from Thailand to Israel to work on an avocado and potato farm in a kibbutz near Gaza. During his free time, he played ping pong with other Thai workers. Then Oct. 7 struck, and armor-clad men, shooting, caught him early morning as he was headed to the bathroom. “Thailand, Thailand,” he pleaded. Watchara didn’t understand much about the tensions between Israel and the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. But he thought the terrorists would realize he wasn’t involved in the conflict and…

By Varvara Vasyanova – Rosaria Butterfield was a militant feminist English professor at Syracuse University waging a “war against stupid.” By “stupid,” she meant Christianity. “The name Jesus made me recoil in anger,” she says. “I tired of students who believed that knowing Jesus meant knowing little else.” Her worldview was fed by social justice and modernized morals. After about a decade of dating men, she gave up entirely and got hooked on lesbian lovers and left Ohio State University not only with a PhD in English and Critical Theory but also with a lesbian partner. “I cheered that the…