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Trump Administration Is Not-So-Subtly Christianizing Foreign Policy and Aid

By Murali Balaji

…ample, spearheaded the effort to bypass the United Nations efforts to help Iraq, focusing U.S. government aid on Iraqi Christians and Yezidis. While both communities have suffered significantly since the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise of ISIS in Iraq, Pence’s intervention suggests that the government is more focused on advancing a narrative of Christian persecution. That, of course, includes pushing for the release of jailed pastors in countr…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…arrative of defending an abandoned Sunni majority in Syria and minority in Iraq. Not just for the chance to meet the sponsors of the Assad regime directly. Not just because of the nefarious role Russia plays in jihadist lore (remember, al-Qaeda was created in the course of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan); but also for this simple reason: Russian intervention confirms the jihadist narrative, which belongs especially, but not exclusively, to ISI…

Bill O’Reilly’s Biblical Misremembering

By Jess Peacock

…emembering of media outlets. From Williams braving a downed helicopter, to Iraq attacking us on 9/11, to the enduring myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives while Democrats are out of control spend freaks, we want, perhaps need, these stories to be true—and after years of reinforcement we come to believe them despite facts to the contrary. I would suggest that the enduring power of story over fact is what powers a certain kind of fundament…

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

By Daniel Silliman

…as to “freedom fries” when the French failed to support the US invasion of Iraq, Jones later became a strong critic of the war. He wrote a personal letter to the family of each and every soldier, sailor and Marine killed in Iraq and, as Mother Jones reported, “one letter at a time, Jones’ doubts about the war began to take shape.” He broke ranks with the Republicans. And broke them hard. “Lyndon Johnson’s probably rotting in hell right now because…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

…sing loss of Catholic voters, and the election, to Bush and the subsequent Iraq War and Wall Street dance party. The appearance of O’Malley (who’s referred to as the “American Francis” and is the pope’s closest U.S. advisor) in support of immigration reform puts some serious muscle behind the issue, according to Allen. It also potentially complicates the Republican Party’s tacit alliance with the bishops since opposition to immigration reform has…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…do besides fighting a war that does not need to be fought—going to war in Iraq is an outstanding example—is to half-ass the fight. War is not a bazaar negotiation, because in bazaars one should not be trading in lives. One does not “split the strategic difference”; either you get in, strategically and determinedly, or you do not go in at all; if the conflict is not amenable to intervention, or the American people are not, or you decide the possi…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…uslim messiah, is supposed to descend… …And of course the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which rounds out a confusing cast of characters. To make the conflict still more confusing, many of these jihadi and other radical fighters have made their way over from Iraq, into which they had arrived or whose terrible insecurity they exploited, after America’s disastrous invasion of that country, which as you remember was conducted without plan or…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ctrum of events and institutions, from drone strikes and Abu Ghraib to the Iraq War, which is taken to be evidence of a congenital Western intolerance of Islam. Certain events are foregrounded, and others are backgrounded. We’ve heard recently a lot about how this film relates to a fatwa on Salman Rushdie; it isn’t an accident the fatwa was released by the dictatorial Khomeini after his revolutionary regime was attacked by a dictatorial Saddam, wh…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT advocates in Europe to identify and assist LGBT refugees from Syria, Iraq and other countries. European advocates with whom the Blade has spoken in recent weeks said it is exceedingly difficult to identify refugees and migrants who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. They have nevertheless joined efforts in their respective countries to provide assistance to them. The Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany — the ultimate destination fo…