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Not His House: Archbishop Oversteps, Opposes Repeal of DADT

By Eugene McMullan

…ou would expect Broglio to invoke it in a critique of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which fell (and still fall) significantly short of Catholic just war criteria (Catechism of the Catholic Church #2309). With respect to DADT, Broglio’s reading is selective. While he emphasizes a few passages dealing with homosexuality, the Catechism offers no less than ten pages on the eighth commandment, regarding truthfulness. DADT should be repealed becaus…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…k. You have done nothing to end the war in Iraq, nothing to end the war in Afghanistan. And now that you have reaped what you have sown, you call for more compromise. Because you have failed to take the side of ordinary people—those who live from paycheck to paycheck without security, with precious little hope in their lives—they have turned their backs on you. They have made common cause with those who oppress them, who mean to turn you out of of…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” 4. Ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So much for “blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9) or Jesus’ admonishment to “Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword” (Matthew 26:52). War can never fulfill our values of “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” 5. The ongoing persecution of gay, les…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…might be surprised to know that over half the world’s Muslims live east of Afghanistan (that is, outside of the Middle East), and South Asia itself is home to nearly a third of the world’s Muslims. I reached out to Sarah Zerina Usmen, a background actress on the show, to ask her these questions and to get to the larger issue: Is Outsourced changing the face of Muslims in the media? Can it, and should it? What kind of effect might this show have on…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…ided with the militarization of the region during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, acceleration of the conflict in Kashmir, and—not coincidentally—the rise of the Taliban. These laws capped the efforts of ideologues like Maulana Maududi to place the Pakistani state in the role of enforcing religious doctrine and practice. In practice, women and minorities have suffered most greatly from these legal innovations of the Zia era. Many human right…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…s on all of their sights being sold to the US military for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company’s website still says, “We believe that America is great when its people are good. This goodness has been based on Biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals.” This idea is everywhere—guns and God, hand in hand. It is not harmless, though. This is the level of Christian nationalism the United States has decide…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…Muslim world, only two other countries legally mandate the veil: Iran and Afghanistan.) There must be an explanation for why a journalist would make such a broad, unsubstantiated statement, and it returns us to the simple need to define Arabs as either secular (like us) or religious (unlike us), an effect of which is a confused causation. Namely, because many Arab states aren’t democracies, they must be Islamist states, where of course women must…

Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…ut that’s just it. Barring an announcement that the US is withdrawing from Afghanistan, or that Obama has decided to nationalize JPMorgan Chase, there’s literally not a thing I can think of that would surprise me in this speech. I am 99% confident that the president will not say anything that will change my life in any kind of ultimate sense. Sure, he may put forward some noble challenge to inspire the nation—after Kennedy, all the presidents thin…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…olitik, 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 interests through rival realpolitik ideological positions…

Apocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…other critics predicted if the ban was lifted. Amos was visiting troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province when President Barack Obama signed the repeal in late December. He said he addressed some 12,000 Marines about the change and “everyone said, ‘Sir, we got it. We’re going to do this thing.’” Military chaplains also went ballistic over the repeal, saying their “religious freedom” would be violated by having to care for gay and lesbian soldiers….