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The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…na. Of course, Hawai’i’s Makana has hardly suffered beyond that moment of existential anxiety as he weighed, in an instant, the pros and cons of pissing off the president and possibly torpedoing a flourishing career. Sure, he’s unlikely to be invited to entertain Obama and friends anytime soon, but no one’s dragged him by the hair to the ground, “nudged” him with a nightstick, or pepper sprayed him at close range. He’s certainly mindful of the dif…

Shari’ah ≠ Islamic Law: Misunderstanding the Role of Islam in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…nteresting, intriguing in the present global economic crisis, and deserve expanded consideration.) For example, Qaddafi’s Libya was culturally and politically Islamic—in certain ways. It was Qaddafi’s authoritarian, and weird, interpretation of Islam, but all the same, Libya under Qaddafi’s freakish ideology was shaped by Qaddafi’s own relationship to Islam. The map of Islam in Libya isn’t clear, and it is shaped by many different sources, which s…

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

By Hussein Rashid

…rofessor at Columbia’s School 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 Ch…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…st Americans would never want an institutional church running this country. But many of those would, all the same, want their president to be a church-going, God-fearing Christian. In that tension lies a better understanding of the latest Islamist politics, and a sober explanation for how Libya’s new government can call for a democracy that nevertheless converges with Islamic values….

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…ions in the domestic space, other authors choose to focus on the American experience. After 9/11 we see a burgeoning of the “ex-Muslim” industry. These are people who claim to have been Muslim at one point, or claim to be Muslim now, who reiterate tired stereotypes from the Rudy Valentino era of the savage, barbarous Arab/Muslim. However, there are also authors like G. Willow Wilson. She is known in the comics world for her graphic novel Cairo, he…

Can Romney Win by Embracing his Mormon Masculinity?

By Joanna Brooks

…ney’s favor. Perry came out of the gates strong, then got bogged down in sexually transmitted disease (his executive order to vaccinate girls against HPV), garbled intellectual history (on science), threw some wild punches (not backing down on calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme”), compared himself to a “piñata,” and then stumbled to the finish—again raising questions of electability in a general contest. Romney, by comparison, proved well-pre…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…ght wings of the world’s religions defend one another against Islam and Marxism. One example of Breivik’s conservative ecumenism is the inclusion in his manifesto of an essay from Shrinandan Vyas titled “Hindu Kush, the largest Genocides in the history of man.” The article argues that the Muslim invasion of present-day Afghanistan beginning in 1000 CE constituted a genocide of Hindus living there. A number of Vyas’ articles circulate on conservati…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…ithin the Muslim world for the most part have not made the news, with the exception of what’s happened over the past six or eight months. Do you think the Arab Spring is changing this negative perception of Islam? Now, if you talk to an average or semi-well informed American, you don’t have to explain yourself when you talk about mass nonviolent movements in the Middle East, because they will immediately associate that with Egypt and Tunisia. So…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ve evangelical convictions that put him at odds with the Family’s unorthodox fundamentalism. “Reach the elite, and the blessings will trickle down to the underlings.” Not exactly the kind of religion practiced by most in western North Carolina, to be sure. As Sarah Posner reported, Heath Shuler was a product of the Democrats’ faith outreach, represented by the Eleison Group a consulting firm, Posner describes as: “focused on making ‘people of fait…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…tion.” Much of the Court’s attention to picketing has been about the complex relationship between picketing as a form of patrolling that limits entrance to, say, businesses (or, wait, funerals?) versus picketing understood as a form of communication. And herein lies, perhaps, part of the ethical dilemma associated with Fred Phelps. An ethical dilemma of both global and local significance. Why Not Fantasy Dissent? When the Supreme Court first rul…