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Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…resident Francois Hollande has already proclaimed that ISIS is at war with France. If he were to say that France should also be at war with ISIS, and propose French troops engaging with ISIS on the ground in Syria and Iraq, this would fulfill one of ISIS’ goals. It knows that with the current support of Arab Sunni Muslims in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq a ground war is one that would favor their side.* If the Sunni Arabs in those parts of Syria…

Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…t be portrayed at all) no other Muslim attacked the cartoonists’ office in Paris. This brings us back to the idiosyncratic nature of this terrorist act. It was not Muslims in general who attacked the Paris office, it was these guys. Hence no amount of thundering about Islam or Islamic radical ideology in general explains why these particular people did what they did. If they were not commanded by some radical organization to undertake the attack,…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…forget the apocalypse because that was the topic. And you couldn’t forget Paris because Paris has a way of saying “I’m here.” Golden Rule The best slogan I heard repeated in Paris is “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” The other phrase that stuck has to do with some parts of the world being “sacrifice zones.” (h/t Naomi Klein for that coinage.) Women from North Dakota joined Hawaiians who joined Filipinos in describing themselves as…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…tible with the label agnostic (which is commonly applied to him). In fact, France in his later years became a fierce anti-theist who compared man’s belief in a benevolent and all-powerful God to a dog’s view of his master. And since France was an anarchist sympathizer, he was out of patience with any kind of centralized authority; hence his disdain for Yahweh. But he also viewed any form of social stratification with a jaundiced eye; hence his spo…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…als were arguing that Donald Trump is the “President of Pittsburgh and not Paris,” the mayor of Pittsburgh Bill Peduto tweeted his support for Paris. Numerous state governments and legislators of all parties reaffirmed their desire to keep with the agreements. Slowing down, again, one hears voices of support and solidarity for climate action crying out just as loud as an ill-informed press conference or shock jock spiritual pundits. And slowing do…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…and scholar—the magazine observes, “Conservatives speak louder in secular France than in pious Germany.” Some excerpts: In France, gay marriage became law in May 2013. Street protests by social conservatives, including four huge rallies in Paris within six months, failed to stop the change. But they made history nonetheless, as unexpectedly large social and political phenomena. True to the movement’s name—Manif pour Tous (Protest for All)—the Fre…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…iform French identity that is, by the way, more of a project of flattening France into homogeneity than reflecting France’s demographic reality. Meanwhile all women are forbidden to cover their faces in public spaces. This is so that Islam does not appear in public France. The state does this to “reclaim” public space for secularity; in France, though, secularism is not neutrality. The culturally secular majority champions a statist secularism the…

Big Ecumenical Gathering Marks Multi-Faith Presence at Paris Climate Talks

By Donna Schaper

…mble big wigs— those of us with the travel budget sufficient to make it to Paris—attended the celebration of Multi-Faith Presence at COP 21 and Reception. We have a tilt towards the Niebuhrian, which means, theologically, that we understand doing some bad, like flying, can result in some good. Most of the people in the room were good at jet lag if bad at carbon emissions. GreenFaith, the OurVoices campaign, the World Council of Churches, Islamic R…

“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now

By Ed Simon

…this weekend. To paraphrase an American poet, there is nothing wrong with France that what’s right with France can’t fix. There is no figure that better embodies the French character than Montaigne, the writer who in many ways invented the modern person. A Catholic, he was horrified by the terror enacted in the Paris massacres. For him humanity is best if it stands before the divine with an attitude of skeptical humility, and if humans stand amon…