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When Is a “Religious War” Not Really a Religious War?

By Sarah Posner

…d the shiva for one of last week’s terror victims, Moshe Twersky: I saw an Arab man walking out the door with an entourage. His name was Ibrahaim Wassim, and he had come to pay his respects to the victims’ families. He was the deputy head of the Palestinian-Israeli village in the north called Baka el-Garbiyye. He told me that they had come, a delegation of Arab citizens of Israel, because he didn’t want “the extremists to drag us into this.” Har N…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…views with LGBT Iranian refugees living in Turkey, awaiting decisions from United Nations officials about if, when, and where their applications for asylum might be accepted. Although life in Turkey is far safer for LGBT people than it is in Iran and many other Arab countries, Turkey is still a challenging place for them, as the film shows. Luxembourg: Gay Prime Minister May Be One of First to Marry Under New Law Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Mini…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ontext, provides the better approach. The civil rights organizations—Sikh, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian—now critical of the 9/11 Museum’s decisions have more at stake than Christian groups did during the “Antisemitism” film controversy. At that time, Robert Royal, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, explained the general ambivalence: “As far as criticism of Christianity, we’re not as sensitive because, maybe, we tend to feel, C…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…website). The governments of conservative Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf countries, have supported the coup as well, anxious as they are about the democratic “contagion” spreading to their realms. The Gulf countries’ embrace of the avowedly secular Egyptian military and the Azhar elite’s support of the military coup unhinges the usual assumptions about religious and secular alliances in the Arab world. Morsi’s support…

Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…ction, almost, as a people went hand in hand with some destruction for the Arab citizens of Israel and of course for others who are not Arab citizens of Israel,” she said. Michaeli welcomed criticism of Israel from American Jews, adding, “I identify with this criticism.” “I’m happy,” she said, to have “support in my struggle for what I see as the Israel that I want to live in and I want to reconstruct as a democratic state that is the homeland of…

Netanyahu Patriarch Dies at 102, Leaves Hawkish Legacy

By Shalom Goldman

…hold sway over his decision-making; he has deemed all such speculation ‘psychobabble.’ But reading what his father Benzion had to say in a 2009 interview with Israeli daily newspaper Maariv, one can only wonder: The tendency to conflict is in the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won’t allow him any compromise or agreement. It doesn’t matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence…

10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq

By Haroon Moghul

…terally (family) trees. That’s how we know. This fortunate ancestor (being Arab) spoke Arabic, so he found employment in the service of the Delhi Sultans, and the family line was from then on inseparable from Islamic law, arts and letters, and judgeships. They managed to make a decent life for themselves. Eight years after he left, the Mongols flattened Baghdad, annihilating the heartland of Islamic civilization. It was the first but not the last…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…, 2009) and Ben Simpfendorfer’s intriguing The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). The Wide Green Smudge Simpfendorfer, fluent in Arabic and Chinese, is Chief China Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and has lived throughout the Middle East. He brings a casual language that makes his arguments easy to process and a pleasure to read, communicating sensitivities a…

Hawk Attack on Liberal Pro-Israel Conference

By Sarah Posner

…, the former AIPAC staffer, labeled any support to J Street from Muslim or Arab donors as an automatic taint, and launched a tirade against the support of J Street’s “allied organizations,” and in particular peace advocate Rebecca Abou-Chedid. It’s hard to imagine a more disgusting — and revealing — maneuver than to claim that Arab or Muslim support instantly undermines an organization’s “pro-Israel” credibility. Stand With Us accused J Street of…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…o cope with the following pronouncement: The problem is not the absence of Arab or even Muslim humor, but its application to the most sacred values… True humor is unrestrained and potentially liberating. The few traditions about Muhammad’s sense of humor do not mitigate the extreme caution that attends Islamic joking about sacred matters. And that may point to the source of the problem. (p. 284) Muhammad didn’t laugh enough. Muslims take themselve…