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Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…and Islamist parties. He has been frequently prosecuted and fined—and the newsrooms of his two publications have been closed down. Free Arabs is, thus, the latest iteration of a long project designed to amplify the voices of a new generation of Arab thinkers, activists, journalists, and artists who dare, against all odds, to flaunt their dissent in the face of weighty cultural norms, meager political and individual rights, and narrow social expec…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…bought, believed, and absorbed Lindsey’s vision. Four decades later, facing a vastly different political map—a map once again set in motion by spectacular acts of courage by the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere—many former Lindsey fans are scrambling to retool and update their narrative of the endtimes. After all, who today would say that Soviet Russia is really Gog and Magog?…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…media do not make us; no wars are started because of what can be seen on a news broadcast. We news consumers are addicts, badnewsaholics. From video games to action films and thriller novels we not only consume wars; we get high from seeing the dark side played out. The Glittering Sword is Whet Jonathan Edwards’ timeless sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God still resonates, even if God is now left out of the equation in the national media….

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…it helps us get past the simple headlines—check out the front page of the New York Times today, suggesting the Iranian-Saudi rivalry is embedded in and involves all Sunni and Shia—but because this reader’s question inadvertently helps us understand why so many in the West and the Muslim world keep talking past each other. Here’s the reader’s question: Can you give me any insight into the apparently undying hatred of Sunni Muslims (e.g., the Saudi…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…n, thrilled by Tunisia’s, and still hurt to see what’s happening in Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria. As much as I was concerned by the far more violent turn Libya’s revolution took, I wanted Qaddafi gone. And now he is gone. But I sense in his rise, fall, and expiration a moral lesson we seem uninterested in. He vowed to hunt down his people like rats, street-by-street and house-by-house. In the end, they hunted him down, chasing him from his palaces an…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…ly other, he is some kind of authoritarian. I’m saying this because of the New York Times’ coverage of Tunisia’s revolution, which expresses a deep concern for Tunisia’s “secularity,” a term that vexes me precisely for its imprecision. A secular Muslim society can be one whose government has no religion (in that sense, America is also secular), or it can be one in which religion itself goes mostly ignored (in that sense, America is not secular). T…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…age between a man and a woman Strongman President Rodrigo Duterte spoke in Bahrain earlier this month, where he again insisted that marriage is between a man and a woman. Czech Republic: Marriage equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, fe…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…an regime, captivated and captured Egypt, and from there reached Libya and Bahrain, Yemen and even Syria. The world without was mesmerized, astonished, amazed and inspired. Everything we thought we know about Arabs and Muslims, Middle Easterners and North Africans, was upended. President Obama even gave a speech. He said some nice things, but that was about it. What he brought to this historical moment wasn’t just disjointed, confused and half-hea…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…inline counterparts. So in 1954, Congress enacted the provision of the tax code at stake in Gaylor v. Mnuchin. A House committee said that the aim of the new subsection was to treat equally those ministers for whom churches provided housing and those who were paid housing allowances instead. The sponsor of the legislation, Illinois Democratic Rep. Peter Mack, justified the law in terms resonant of the fight against communism: Certainly, in these t…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…