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What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…ll Muslims are x,’ they say, ‘because some Muslims do x.’ Surely the stuff Western civilization was built off of. V. One Of Us is Rubber and The Other is Glue Many Islamophobes desperately want to be engaged, because such engagement promises credibility. But before the debate begins, they dismiss the terms around which it might be structured, and evince little interest in the questions any such debate would require us to ponder: What is a religio…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…vel headed cost-benefit analysis when it comes to discussing the crimes of Western armies, civilian dead, and where next to bring the civilizational goods of democratic modernity. This is the “we” whose public voice constitutes the consensus around shared national values. The problem with Marion’s “we” is not the way it assents to the specified content of liberal rights and secular values (indeed, such values are shared widely – beyond the West an…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…still at least a dignity and a courageous unreasoning certitude, which in Western Christianity have been perceptibly melted down.” Caldwell’s hatred for Islam masks his hatred of the European and Western social trends that, in his view, enshrined an amoral hedonism as the ultimate cultural value and so deprived Europe of any larger meanings. Europe has no cause to fight for, and Islam, the “courageous” and “unreasoning” force (indeed, it is coura…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…le such commentators insist on the obligation of Islam’s conformity to the Western way, altered global conditions drained the matter of its urgency? What if a convergence of new sources of investment, rising business classes and ever more sophisticated politicians neither needed nor wanted to go West? If a rising China displaced America, what happens to the typical narrative—never mind the vile discourse al Qaeda propagates? Our president, more pe…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Iranian clerics’ proximity to, and collusion with, the secular reforms of Western-leaning and Western-style political leaders like the Shah. We live in that world still today, and it is in this sense that we did not need the September 11 attacks to learn that a certain form of neotraditional religiosity was alive and well around the world. What happened in the new century, and what has taken up a great deal of our cultural attention in the past…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ebellion in the New World continues to be the poorest nation in the entire western hemisphere lends itself to righteous finger-wagging, western incrimination, and more. I am most struck by the modern-ness of these matters, as well as by Nietzsche’s patient cautioning about the potential abuse built in to the language of “good and evil.” The paradox, one well noted by Nietzsche, is that I, located confidently on the political left, become positivel…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…we can refrain from absolute judgments. Maybe, for example, we can leave open the possibiilty that the spiritual practices of privileged people partake of privilege without being reducible to it. And maybe we can allow that some relationships between Western travelers and non-Western hosts might not be defined exclusively in terms of the dynamics of power, even while we continue to ask pointed questions—and for that kind of rhetorical generosity w…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…ple are dangerous but they certainly are people of faith, and these are people of faith who want to destroy Christianity. They want to destroy the West, who see us as heretics, who see us as infidels, and as a result, we are concerned about that. We understand that struggle. Western civilization is Christendom, in Santorum’s view. Which means, of course, that there’s no room even for someone like Rauf who is so obviously not a threat to American v…

The Princess Bride: Royal Weddings for Everyone

By Katy E. Shrout

…the life course. But it is also simply an exaggerated, iconic version of a Western wedding. Kate Middleton might literally become a royal on her wedding day, but the contemporary wedding promises that any bride in white can be a symbolic princess. In the past two centuries, the Western bride has been visually associated with all sorts of images of ideal femininity: the Virgin Mary, saints, angels, movie stars. The most consistent icon, though, has…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…on Islam worldwide, it is too big, too overwhelming, and perhaps not quite Western enough to do what Bosnia can. Bosnia is small enough to put in your pocket, and kind enough to want to; it is easy to explore, and beautiful enough to fall in love with. There is something strange about Bosnia that way. Tuesday night at Sarajevo’s Gazi Husrev Beg mosque, the main Ottoman monument, the congregation is rows deeper than I expected. The worshippers are…