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Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…ed opaque and incredible. The Ascent of Intellectual Orthodoxy For most of Western history, religion has been primarily a matter of orthopraxy, not orthodoxy. In fact, no doctrine made any sense without participation in the community of faith and in its rituals. No doubt, there were certain thoughts or “beliefs” that mattered and were of extreme importance; however, unlike today, these convictions were never understood as either the core or the pu…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…particular, have been conditioned by decades of realpolitik, by decades of Western support for their oppressors, by images from Afghanistan and Iraq, by constant betrayals, to mistrust the US and the West. These masses are now demanding and gaining the political space to express themselves. They will hardly speak kindly of US and Western policy of the past fifty years. Yet they have a choice before them. The choice is to either pursue their inte…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…e same folks learned a) they have no ability to change unless it’s through Western civilization or b) they are incapable of modernization because of who and what they are. This worldview, namely that the Westerner, coextensive with a certain type of Christianity and a certain type of whiteness, creates the progress of history is so shockingly pervasive that persons who do not fit within this privileged category can find themselves negatively dispo…

Irony of the Iranian Women’s Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…ar Sania Mirza’s short skirts. Then I do a double-take, and ask the global-Western, anti-hijabists to recall their political-cultural identities. Weren’t we Westerners supposed to be privatized individuals? Weren’t we supposed to live and let live? Don’t we laugh up our sleeves at authoritarian states and cultures that arrange marriages, control women’s clothes and sex lives, and generally run other people’s lives? Aren’t we the cool heads who blo…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…ive, nearly fully Muslim country, whose recently deposed tyrant frequently promoted Islamic practices and pieties. If we read the Arab Spring as a zero-sum game between Islamists and secularists, we’re going to miss what’s happening; if we imagine Arab democracy will look like secular Western democracy, we will likely be disappointed. And if we assume reference to Islam and democracy reveals only hypocrisy, insincerity, or ideological confusion, w…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…uality, and make it hard to simply transfer the rhetoric and strategies of Western LGBT-rights movements to Muslim countries. Considering the identity-practice divide also allows for understanding as something more than simple buffoonery the statement by Iranian President Ahmadinejad that Iran has no homosexuals—the category itself is seen as a Western invention. In her article, Aisha Geissinger explores a more fluid understanding of gender and an…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…unch is worth remarking upon, especially when the post-9/11 divide between Western and non-Western civilizations is often presented as a clash in the mediascape. In fact, the project has received widespread positive exposure in the mainstream Western press, unprecedented for an Islamic cultural subject matter. It has even featured prominently in the UK’s Daily Mail, widely regarded as fearmongering and ‘othering’ when it comes to the Muslim commun…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…ning that housing expansion in fire zones, both locally and throughout the western U.S., have garnered a disproportionate share of private and governmentally subsidized resources over (at least) the last two generations. An ethic derived both from nineteenth-century manifest destiny and twentieth-century suburban developmentalism provides a powerful impetus to the sprawl that has expanded locally, both eastward towards the great plains and westwar…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…the first, fundamental, basis of democracy, and that the West, as also the Western way of life, and Western civilization, depends on untrammeled freedom. But what about hate speech? Is hate speech not a category that impinges on, and limits, the practice of free speech? Must Jews ‘tolerate’ neo-Nazis? Must Catholics tolerate one who suggests that the birth of Jesus was not immaculate, that he was instead conceived by ordinary human means, outside…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…timidate both its enemies and its own population. The savage beheadings of Western journalists and aid workers that were posted on the Internet were matched by dozens, perhaps hundreds, of beheadings of recalcitrant Sunnis under ISIS’ control who refused to go along with its demands or who dared to be identified as Christians, Yazidis and other minorities—or even as modern people who liked to dress in a Western style. For ISIS, terror has been an…