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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…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…the brunt of the War on Terror: the innocents on the ground in places like Iraq, whose only crime was being the wrong kind of people at the wrong moment in history. So I thought I might try telling a story about them, and maybe in the process get at some more general truths. And in mulling this over I hit on the conceit of turning the world on its head—flipping not just the geopolitical situation, but also the notion of who constitutes a fit prota…

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…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

…sing loss of Catholic voters, and the election, to Bush and the subsequent Iraq War and Wall Street dance party. The appearance of O’Malley (who’s referred to as the “American Francis” and is the pope’s closest U.S. advisor) in support of immigration reform puts some serious muscle behind the issue, according to Allen. It also potentially complicates the Republican Party’s tacit alliance with the bishops since opposition to immigration reform has…

Bill O’Reilly’s Biblical Misremembering

By Jess Peacock

…emembering of media outlets. From Williams braving a downed helicopter, to Iraq attacking us on 9/11, to the enduring myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives while Democrats are out of control spend freaks, we want, perhaps need, these stories to be true—and after years of reinforcement we come to believe them despite facts to the contrary. I would suggest that the enduring power of story over fact is what powers a certain kind of fundament…

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…He is political and concerned about the plight of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. He may wish to lend moral and financial support to Muslims in these regions but is not “operational.” The third type is the militant Muslim willing to fight and die for “Muslim causes.” Missing entirely from this discourse is the option to organize and become active in nonviolent civic or political organizations that support his causes…

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…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…arrative of defending an abandoned Sunni majority in Syria and minority in Iraq. Not just for the chance to meet the sponsors of the Assad regime directly. Not just because of the nefarious role Russia plays in jihadist lore (remember, al-Qaeda was created in the course of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan); but also for this simple reason: Russian intervention confirms the jihadist narrative, which belongs especially, but not exclusively, to ISI…