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Herman Cain Doesn’t Know his Afghan from his Uzbek

By Haroon Moghul

…to figure out how to go about doing whatever it is we need to do to win in Afghanistan. Uzbekistan is once again very important to the United States. As Pakistan becomes a more unwilling ally, and sending supplies through Pakistani access points to Afghanistan becomes a more difficult and dangerous proposition, the Obama administration has been making overtures to Uzbekistan. If it helps things any, think of central Asia as another corner of the M…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…o go to the burning deserts of Iraq or to the chilly forbidding heights of Afghanistan: they don’t even have to know anything about the lives of those who are going. The idea that they might experience any Fallows-like guilt or have any second thoughts about their degree of insulation is simply not an issue today. This extreme stratification and insulation of the privileged is what weighs on my mind, and what should weigh on all concerned religiou…

Afghanistan Killer: Touched or Terrorist?

By Haroon Moghul

…News Service, Omid Safi writes about how the recent horrific slaughter in Afghanistan by an American soldier reveals a journalistic double standard. This individual is described as deranged, he notes, but Nidal Hassan, the Ft. Hood Shooter, was considered part of an Islamic conspiracy. While I concur with Safi in his analysis, I want to push the argument farther to discuss how journalists see themselves as part of a mainstream, which yields less…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…n between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the global financial crisis, but there was a call to support something called the…

With Trump’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities, Afghan Hindus and Sikhs Face an Uncertain Future in India

By Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal

…ious minorities are concerned that, as they’ve spent their entire lives in Afghanistan, they “will die from poverty” in India. Meanwhile, for Sikhs in the diaspora, the concern lies in India’s long history of persecution and violence towards minority groups. The push to remove the Sikh and Hindu community from Afghanistan comes following a recent attack on a gurdwara in Kabul. On March 25, 2020, an ISIS gunman stormed Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib and ki…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en rejected should hide their sexual orientation when they are returned to Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch calls LGBT asylum seekers from Afghanistan “among the most vulnerable,” noting, “To be openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in Afghanistan is to risk abuse, even death.” Guyana: Court says being trans not a crime, but laws used against them still on the books The Court of Appeal confirmed a judge’s ruling that “the expression of one’s…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…to ground their actions. I’m opposing religion providing the language and codes that shape the public. The public, I’ll say again, should be a secular space. BRAXTON: Let me say again, I gladly embrace a secular public sphere. Yet in a secular public sphere that is democratic, no singular person or group should decide what language and codes will shape public discourse and practice. As diverse individuals and groups engage, debate, and persuade o…

Goy to the World: What Does Hanukkah Have to Teach Us About Living in Empire?

By Garret Keizer

…ssion, then what? And how should we interpret a phrase like “the people of Afghanistan and Iraq” in one of my statements above? Which people? If an American occupying force is not viewed with favor by the people of Afghanistan, is a federation of local warlords? Does a girl whose face has been disfigured by a fanatic’s acid worry as much as I do about the dangers of American imperialism? That said, if a “good friend of America” oppressed its women…

Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist

By John D. Carlson

…nvading a country and overthrowing its government. The US may have been in Afghanistan for eight years, but it never committed the resources to succeed. Obama, following Niebuhr, reminds us we are not as innocent as we think; amending for previous mistakes requires showing Afghans the US is serious about earning—quickly, one hopes—the right to withdraw. Finally, if Obama wants to root himself within the ethical realist tradition embodied by other…