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Herman Cain Doesn’t Know his Afghan from his Uzbek

By Haroon Moghul

…of tremendous rage for the people in the region, and has pushed Pakistan’s military to take a more populist and thus anti-American stance. And this means Uzbekistan’s profile is rising, as it has at times during the War on Terror, as we try to figure out how to go about doing whatever it is we need to do to win in Afghanistan. Uzbekistan is once again very important to the United States. As Pakistan becomes a more unwilling ally, and sending suppl…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…Tunisia, seems to have developed a consensus around “civil” governance—not military rule, not Islamist, and not explicitly secularist. Moreover, there are of course a number of practical reasons the Islamist parties may have done so well: they are well-organized, they have great social service and charity programs, and they have won the respect of many of their fellow citizens for their years facing oppression, discrimination, and outright torture…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses, storm trooper outfits, military boots, and even swastikas.” SMUG, the Ugandan group, is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights. The complaint, which also names Ugandan evangelists Stephen Langa and Martin Ssempa and politicians James Buturo and David Bahati as defendants, charges that Lively and the others committed crimes against humanity of persecution, and engaged in a conspiracy…

Perry Tries to Goad Dems into Doing Something Stupid

By Sarah Posner

…“there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school”) is trying to goad Democrats into doing something stupid: The Perry campaign must think it’s tapping into a lingering anxiety among Democrats that they are perceived as anti-religion. “I’ll end Obama’s war on religion,” a phrase possibly more ridiculous than the “war on Christmas.” Did Obama forget to…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…es charged were “anti-Israel”—read, anti-Semitic— views. Smith then made a number of corrections to the article. Conservatives, though, wasted no time in hailing Smith’s story as exposing “the anti-Israel left” (a headline in the Weekly Standard), and the “anti-Israel claptrap” (Jennifer Rubin) promoted by liberals. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich, if elected president, would like to engage in a joint military operation with Israel to attack Iran, a scen…

Gingrich’s Apocalyptic Fantasies, Again

By Sarah Posner

…to the candidate’s suggestion that the United States engage in pre-emptive military strikes against Iran and North Korea, many nuclear experts dismiss the threat. America’s current missile defense system would thwart such an attack, these experts say, and the nations in question are at the kindergarten stage of developing nuclear arms.” It’s not just hawkish audiences Gingrich is aiming for, though; he knows there’s a slice of his religious audien…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.” He then pledges to end “Obama’s war on religion.” Newt Gingrich has for some time subscribed to fabricated theories that anti-American secularists aim to drive religion from the public square. Speaking at televangelist and Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee’s church last March, he said,…

You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

By Haroon Moghul

…Charming is her captor. Danijel, we then learn, is a Serb commander whose military service, and possibly his rank, is due to his father: a gruff general overloaded with nationalist bile who has only to slap his son a few times to change his mind about virtually anything. Danijel is a contradiction; popular among his men, including rapists, drunks, and sadists who laugh hysterically when they shoot civilians, he is also a tender protector of Ajla….

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…was forced to fully retract and apologize “unreservedly” for attributing a number of false statements to Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the leading Islamist figures of post-authoritarian Tunisia. Among them, that he had “threatened to hang a prominent Tunisian feminist, Raja bin Salama, in Basij Square in Tunis, because she [had] called for the country’s new laws to be based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” What all this anxious coverage…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…ivar, “are harmful to the Iranian people, more than to the government, and military action by the U.S. would be a great mistake.” “The West,” says Kadivar “does not really care about human rights in the Islamic world. Think about Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Despite the bad human rights situation in Iran, the conditions are better than in Saudi Arabia.” He points to the status of women in today’s Iran. More than 60% of university students are women….