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No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…but to the Iranian Islamic Revolution, which (1) overthrew a monarchy (and Saudi Arabia is a monarchy); (2) aimed to export Islamic Revolution, which Saudi Arabia interpreted as a direct threat; and (3) attempted to claim the mantle of political Islam, which Saudi Arabia sees itself as the principal representative of in the world. From 1980-1988, Iran fought a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which was backed by the Gulf Arab monarchies, especia…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…he juvenile spat between a violent, authoritarian Islamist monarchy, i.e., Saudi Arabia, and a violent, authoritarian Islamist republic, Iran; if only, I often wish, there was some global agency with the moral clout to call for a time-out, and to see it through. To insulate the Muslim world from both these regimes. Their rhetoric infects the wider region; the cover of the New York Times suggests as much: now, whether they like it or not, all Sunni…

Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

By Joanna Brooks

…support of Saudi women’s rights, was released on Monday after ten days in Saudi Arabia’s Damman prison. Al-Sharif is a single mother with a five-year-old son, who was hospitalized during her imprisonment. According to some reports, Saudi authorities had threatened to remove custody of her son. Al-Sharif issued a brief statement thanking Saudi officials for her release and rebuffing attacks on her character and her devotion to Islam: “At the end o…

Women2Drive in Saudi Arabia

By Joanna Brooks

June 17 dawned many hours ago in Saudi Arabia, and early reports suggest that the day declared “Women 2 Drive” by Saudi women’s rights activists has been a success. Reports are coming in from Saudi journalists and Twitterists: about 20 women have been seen driving in Riyadh. Five or six drove past the capital. Women have also been reported driving in Jeddah. And there have been no arrests. An early morning YouTube video depicted one woman driving…

Saudi Women Take to the Twittersphere to Protest Driving Ban

By Joanna Brooks

…group Women2Drive, the status of the June 17 event is uncertain, but other Saudi women activists report that the movement is gaining traction. The prohibition on women’s driving is not Saudi law but a fatwa from the country’s conservative religious leaders. Even so, say many moderate and progressive Muslims, the ban is a strong misreading of Islamic tradition, pointing to scriptural examples of women riding on donkey and horseback and comparing th…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book. Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

Turkey and Egypt: Islam’s Future?

By Haroon Moghul

…ogical wars complementing actual wars—and Islamic thought another victim. Saudi Arabia funded madrasas in Pakistan, leading to Iran and Iraq funding madrasas in Pakistan; in generally more benign instances, Egypt dispatched scholars to other Muslim countries, and issued scholarships to bring scholars to study in Egypt. But whatever the specifics, it was hard to see these countries, as they’ve existed over the past few decades, offering models. Wh…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…people and other marginalised groups by these religious authorities. Even Saudi Arabia has taken steps to curtail the power of its religious police to raid and arrest, recognising the widespread abuses that have occurred. The federal and state authorities in Malaysia should follow their lead. Saudi Arabia: Cleric ignites backlash with call to stop punishing homosexuality Salman al-Ouda, a Saudi cleric, reportedly called for the end to the persecu…