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Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…mester and his writing, the president’s approval ratings were in permanent free fall, his nefarious theocratic designs evidently vanquished. In that climate, Roose found ready at hand the language for common ground and the gradient of hope. Sound familiar? A New Era of Responsibility Throughout Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and into his administration, he has tried to work his words around the culture wars. He speaks of “abortion reduction”…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…e facts intact. What if you grew up in a country that cherished individual freedom, and one of those freedoms was to worship the God of your choice or to believe in nothing at all beyond the tangible and logical? What if you loved that country so much that you gave your life to defend those freedoms? What if that country’s predominant religion was not your own? And what if they honored your sacrifice by erecting and/or preserving a statue that hon…

Trump Administration Is Not-So-Subtly Christianizing Foreign Policy and Aid

By Murali Balaji

…ample, spearheaded the effort to bypass the United Nations efforts to help Iraq, focusing U.S. government aid on Iraqi Christians and Yezidis. While both communities have suffered significantly since the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise of ISIS in Iraq, Pence’s intervention suggests that the government is more focused on advancing a narrative of Christian persecution. That, of course, includes pushing for the release of jailed pastors in countr…

Right-Wing Religion, Anti-Globalism, Authoritarian Rule: America Catches Up With the Rest of the World

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…it in a good way. In my interviews with refugees from ISIS-held regions in Iraq, they made it clear that their fellow villagers who supported ISIS were not bad people. They did not subscribe to all of the horrible things that ISIS said and did. They were simply looking for respect. They saw in ISIS a voice for their frustrations. The Sunni Arabs in western Iraq and eastern Syria had been alienated by their own governments in Baghdad and Damascus….

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…port a long list of grievances that include the US military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the killing of civilians in drone and other US military strikes, Western support for Arab and Muslim autocratic regimes, torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the “dishonoring” of Muslims around the world. It is true that the so-called “Arab Spring” has been a significant setback for al Qaeda and its affiliates, though much will depend on how the US and…

Everyone Should Know The Story Of Alyssa Peterson

By Joanna Brooks

…menting torture. She was officially reprimanded for showing “empathy” to Iraqi detainees and reassigned to another unit. Days later, she shot herself with her service rifle. Every Mormon should know the story of Alyssa Peterson because her story affirms that our tradition has the power to inspire its members to “dare to be different,” as the familiar Mormon slogan goes: to hold to our principles even when it is difficult or unpopular. And…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT advocates in Europe to identify and assist LGBT refugees from Syria, Iraq and other countries. European advocates with whom the Blade has spoken in recent weeks said it is exceedingly difficult to identify refugees and migrants who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. They have nevertheless joined efforts in their respective countries to provide assistance to them. The Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany — the ultimate destination fo…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ctrum of events and institutions, from drone strikes and Abu Ghraib to the Iraq War, which is taken to be evidence of a congenital Western intolerance of Islam. Certain events are foregrounded, and others are backgrounded. We’ve heard recently a lot about how this film relates to a fatwa on Salman Rushdie; it isn’t an accident the fatwa was released by the dictatorial Khomeini after his revolutionary regime was attacked by a dictatorial Saddam, wh…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…uslim messiah, is supposed to descend… …And of course the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which rounds out a confusing cast of characters. To make the conflict still more confusing, many of these jihadi and other radical fighters have made their way over from Iraq, into which they had arrived or whose terrible insecurity they exploited, after America’s disastrous invasion of that country, which as you remember was conducted without plan or…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…do besides fighting a war that does not need to be fought—going to war in Iraq is an outstanding example—is to half-ass the fight. War is not a bazaar negotiation, because in bazaars one should not be trading in lives. One does not “split the strategic difference”; either you get in, strategically and determinedly, or you do not go in at all; if the conflict is not amenable to intervention, or the American people are not, or you decide the possi…