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America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tries that still use the death penalty quite liberally: among them Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea, and Myanmar. Deterrence, Vengeance, Retribution In an increasingly abolitionist global environment, what are the arguments for a continued commitment to the death penalty? There are three main ones. Far and away the most common argument offered in favor if the death penalty is the argument for deterrence. The threat of execution, it is held…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…oint, and this party of five would see me through until my entire visit to Saudi Arabia was completed. It is not true that my only contribution was 100 riyal. When we left the Ramy Jamarat, I was the only one who knew the way back to our tents in Mina because I had carefully plotted the course from the first time I made Ramy with our tour leader. We rejoined our camp around 11 p.m.—then, my last night in Mina was over. One last Ramy Jamarat and I…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…is not coincidental that countries with actual histories of terrorism like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates are not on the list. His actions are about fear and the utility of that fear for his political agenda. Alongside the history of coexistence is a history of intolerance. From the anti-Irish Catholic Know-Nothing Party, to the Asian Exclusion Act, to the internment of people of Japanese ancestry, this country has vacillated on the razo…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…s it always has. We hear Newt Gingrich say all sorts of things about Saudi Arabia, but do we really think that if Newt Gingrich was in power he would suddenly drop that alliance? The Brotherhood’s position on foreign policy reflects to some degree a wider Arab and Muslim opinion on the region, and a vacuum in power which has emerged since America’s relative decline in the region has become increasingly obvious. We’ll simply see more countries pla…

Richard Dawkins, New Agnostic

By Michael Schulson

…really get much choice…I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned. IC: Small side effects. In the past, Dawkins has made blanket statements about the Muslim world without regard to politics, colonial history, the stifling effectof petropolitics, or, you know, any oth…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…t “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indonesia, but 2) found instead in Saudi Arabia or Iran, where it’s magically “unadulterated,” 3) therefore revealing real Islam as irredeemably toxic. Muslims themselves deploy a similar language, tying Arabness and Islam or Pakistani-ness and Islam, judging any other experience inferior and derivative. But Islam has been in Bosnia for as long as it’s been in much of India, where my family’s from. It’s pos…

The War On Terror Is Over

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ndemocratic dictators like Egypt’s Mubarak and the Saud family monarchy in Saudi Arabia, its invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and for its one-sided support for Israel without equal concern for the rights of Palestine. When I interviewed one of the Muslim activists involved in bombing the World Trade Center in 1993, he told me that he liked America. It was easy for him to be a Muslim in the United States, he said, and he respected o…

New Egyptian Appointee Vows to Prevent Sunnis from Falling into ‘Shi‘i Trap’

By Christopher Anzalone

…uch as Hosni Mubarak, King ‘Abdullah II of Jordan, and King ‘Abdullah I of Saudi Arabia, fear the increased popularity of Twelver Shi‘ism, which they connect with the regional influence of Iran, which is ruled by a Twelver Islamist government. Limited “conversions” of Sunni Syrians and Palestinians following the Summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah—the Lebanese Shi‘i political party and paramilitary organization—did not help assuage these…

Obama’s Muslim Strategy 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…a lot from getting to talk to one another. Like Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, America is creating Islamic networks. Except America’s strategy, like the radicals’, is truly global. Nothing else could compete, and nothing less matches Obama’s ambitions. Rashad Hussein, US envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), closed out the conference. Hussein’s remarks were grounded in Obama’s belief that “the fundamental aspirations of pe…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…ut a few other countries, especially the metal scenes in Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which are fairly well developed and quite interesting. More broadly, I wish that I could have spent more time providing a deeper historical background for the events and experiences I was describing, but my editors felt strongly that the book needed to remain focused on the scene as it is today in order to keep the narrative flow and make it as accessible as p…