Link Roundup for May 21- May 31 2010

• The Montreal Gazette has an op-ed (unattributed) about the government’s take on the naqib.
• The Montreal Gazette also reports on the rhetoric against “multiculturalism idiocy” by a radical secularist.
• The National Catholic Reporter’s Bill Tammeus has an op-ed about the irrelevance of the US Supreme Court justices’ religion. CNN has an op-ed on the religion of the justices’, too.
• Canada.com reports on the misunderstandings and misinterpretations surrounding “Everybody Draw Mohammed” page on facebook. CNN also comments. CNN also has an op-ed about a series of stick figures labeled Mohammed at the Harvard campus.

• Canada.com notes that the Dalai Lama will start tweeting.
• The Montreal Gazette reports on the opposition to the ban on the niqab in Quebec.
• The New York Times has an op-ed about religious pluralism from the Dalai Lama.
• CBC reports that the Canadian Cardinal whose comments about abortion always being a “moral crime” a short time ago has called for the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canadian politics.
• The New Yorker has a humor piece parodying what may have been Heidi Montag’s prayer before getting ten plastic surgery operations in a single day.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the physical dangers of polemicizing against radical Islam.
• The New York Times has an op-ed about the excommunication of a nun who assisted in an abortion.
• Slate comments on the meeting of multiple people who claim to be Jesus.
• The Huffington Post has an op-ed about Buddhist ethics an the oil spill.
• CNN reports about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s negative reaction to the Episcopal Church’s first openly lesbian bishop. The BBC comments as well.
• The Montreal Gazette reports that the Quebec government has closed down a Jewish school because of its failure to teach a sufficient proportion of non-religious topics.
• The Montreal Gazette also reports on a rival, Muslim version of Facebook.
• The Stranger has a humor op-ed about the vapidity of the constructions of femininity and Islam in the Sex and the City sequel.
• BBC reports on the effects of the national economy on a German passion play.
• CNN reports on the business ventures of monks in the US.
• CNN has a slide show of religion and sports. Nate Robinson’s comments on his excellent play the Boston Celtic’s most recent game came a little too late, it seems.
• CNN has an op-ed from Stephen Prothero criticizing the Dalai Lama’s take on religious pluralism.
• SPOILER ALERT CNN comments on religion in the LOST series finale.
• CNN also comments on the rise of a “younger, hipper Islam.”
• CNN reports that Westboro “God Hates Fags” Church will be picketing the funeral of heavy-metal rocker Dio.
• Paleojudaica reports on Glenn Beck’s recent foray into Qumran scholarship.
• The Huffington Post has an op-ed from Jim Wallis about the Christianity espoused by Tea Partiers.