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Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…isis in communities that are not the white-ethnic Catholic enclaves of the East Coast. Unfortunately New Mexico is a case in point. In the Archdiocese of Santa Fe alone, at least 82 clergy and religious have been formally accused of sexual abuse. 74 of these names were released by the archdiocese itself last year, and another 8 names not appearing on the archdiocesan list are cataloged on the website BishopAcccountability.Org. One lawsuit filed in…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…n there is a shooting war on. Perhaps the greatest challenge in the Middle East today is the lack of off-ramps—of mechanisms to de-escalate conflict. Until and unless we stop the combatants from fighting in Syria, we probably can’t make much progress addressing the ideas that propel extremist groups. That also means we speak in a language that can be understood, appreciated and encouraged by those who we need to get onboard. Right now, the Middle…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…sands 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 are unfortunately caught up in much of that uncertainty. This is not the time for inflammatory action; there are anti-democratic forces i…

Inauguration: An Evangelical And A Gay Bishop—What’s Missing?

By Robert V. Thompson

…tinues. How about an inaugural symbol that points to healing in the Middle East? Is this a missed opportunity? What if the Obama transition team decided to use the invocation in inauguration as an opportunity for a shared prayer? What if the invocation to this inauguration was shared by a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam. Imagine how powerful it would have been had the very first prayer of this administration to be jointly offered by a rabbi and an…

Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…ver land, influence, and oil. Maintaining American influence in the Middle East has been (and likely remains) in the best interests of the United States, certainly of Israel, and perhaps of the rest of the world. Bin Laden, however, disagrees. Vehemently. Violently. Nevertheless, this does not make the war—formally known as “on terror”—a religious conflict. To say that it is echoes the kinds of over-simplified religious ignorance we came to expect…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…of predominantly Muslim trade through public-private partnership, but the East India Company did it that much better. The East India Company’s flags, in turn, seem a likely influence on Old Glory. 23. History Itself The founding father of modern sociology, and arguably of modern history, was Tunisian Renaissance man Ibn Khaldun. In addition to analyzing the rise and fall of civilizations, Ibn Khaldun was a scholar of religion and mysticism. 24. R…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…War, a consequence of which was the independence of Bangladesh, previously East Pakistan. It all started when, after national elections, the party representing the eastern half of the country clearly won, but the dominant western elite refused to accept a result that would find them subordinated. Much of this refusal was rooted in ethnic supremacism and religious chauvinism (Many of West Pakistan’s elites often saw Bengali-speaking East Pakistanis…

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…n hospitality is entirely of a piece with what we know of the Ancient Near East where, like today, among Bedouin and Arabs, hospitality is a core value. The Ancient Near East had no Holiday Inns; hospitality is essential for survival and its presence or absence says much about the ethical character of people. Consider Exodus 22:21 and 23:9 and its injunction not to oppress strangers; Luke 7:44-46 (where Jesus rebukes Simon: “I entered your house,…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…radical prayer.” She predicted that such a huge revival was coming to the east coast of the United States and that in “less than a decade the East Coast will be called America’s Bible Belt.” She is not, in other words, deterred by pursuit of the impossible. In fact, it is the impossible that keeps the movement going—after all, one’s quest for purity, in realms spiritual and otherwise, is always an exercise in futility. So there’s always something…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the results of an effort to survey LGBTQ activists in 42 Asian and Middle Eastern countries on the impact on other countries of Taiwan’s moves toward marriage equality. An excerpt: While many may be tempted to cite Islam as the main reason for the Middle East’s institutionalized homophobia, Jordanian Queer Muslima pushes hard against this argument. She argues that before Victorian-era colonization, “Islamic discourse spoke to communities that wer…