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How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…cy positions, especially his opposition to a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, run counter to the sensibilities of most Americans. Romney observers have sometimes tried to sniff out ties between fringe elements of Mormonism and his foreign policy, but to review his foreign policy is to find religion conspicuous in its absence. After all, his unapologetically exceptionalist outlook on the role of America in the twenty-first century world c…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…of International and Public Affairs. He has experience working in and with Afghanistan for decades, working with Estonian and Georgian people and governments, and navigating the trans-Caucasus region. He has a vast legal and practical knowledge of the region, and is sensitive to questions of religion and ethnicity as well as nationalism. First, he explained to me, we have no clear idea what is actually happening in Chechnya, certainly not on a day…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…or Terry Jones’ burning of the Qur’an last year led to riots and deaths in Afghanistan, not to mention his foolishly endangering the thousands of troops, diplomats, and other Americans still stationed there. His promotion of this latest film has now contributed in some way to violence in Libya and Egypt, and that includes the death of one of our best ambassadors. We are on the precipice of war with Iran. The Middle East is deeply unstable, and we…

Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make

By Richard Pierard

…campaign, our evangelicals—including among them many of “my” Baptists—were promoting a slew of “social issues,” but precious little “gospel.” Self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals had done everything they could to defeat President Obama, and in the process they discredited the evangelical message and reduced it to a mere political gospel. From where I’m sitting, it’s obvious that they need to engage in the kind of soul-searching th…

Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War

By Haroon Moghul

…overwhelmed. Some fear that if the regime falls, there will be a repeat of Afghanistan, with competing militias and warlords. I think these are uninformed predictions. The beginnings of a new state might be messy, even violent, but most political transitions are. Even most Salafi fighters recognize the role of popular will alongside their desire for an Islamic state. Some may violently oppose popular rejection of their objectives, but most will li…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…ng number of secularist groups organizing on Facebook, including groups in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Sudan. In all of this, the United States is an anomaly since it rejects even laws against religious hate speech, which were found in 36 of 45 European states in 2011. It’s the best place in the world to be a secularist. Several years ago I co-authored an article in Fr…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…s part of government. His example was not Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but the rogue state we call the United Kingdom. Surely the stuff nightmares are made of. Yugoslavia started to fall apart in the early ’90s. First Slovenia broke off and then Croatia, leaving Bosnia, only 44% Muslim and nearly 30% Serbian, attached to a federation demographically dominated by Serbia. Izetbegovic moved for independence, and here is the logic of…

Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality

By Mary E. Hunt

…rimination there has been until now. More than 20,000 women have served in Afghanistan and Iraq; many of them have been injured, and more than a hundred killed. What constitutes combat is not altogether clear so it is harder to draw lines. The use of drones complicates things even further. Does someone who “pilots” one from afar and goes home to her/his family at night qualify as combat-seasoned? Gender has increasingly less to do with anything as…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ical Muslim Brotherhood. Also, his commitment to drone attacks, the War on Afghanistan, and the Patriot Act has soured his popularity with most Muslims worldwide. Furthermore, he drinks alcohol and eats pork openly. Muslims can tolerate almost any sin, but the public consumption of pork? (Then again, maybe his smoking will win him bonus points among middle-aged Muslim men.) (XI) Wild Card Candidate: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Soon-Not-To-Be of the Islam…

Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?

By Ivan Strenski

…scraggly-bearded physician, dug into some cave on the borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan, can declare fatwas whenever he chooses, we can understand how and why Sunnis are in disarray. When a gang of former Ghaddafi “guns” can desecrate the tombs of Muslim saints in Mali honored for centuries, and declare a Sharia-based state there, we know something is amiss. Who appointed them? And, about Boston: the older Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan, i…