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Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…o foreground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desen…

Waging Patience, Not Violence

By Asma Afsaruddin

…aggression. That some jurists close to the ruling elite in Syria and then Iraq sought to circumvent this categorical prohibition through legal and hermeneutical ruses—because frankly it got in the way of empire-building—reminds us that scripture can be made to yield multiple, competing meanings depending on who gets to do the interpreting. Political loyalties, class, and gender have all been factors in shaping classical interpretations of the Qur…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…vative candidates argued that we needed a substantial military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan to safeguard the freedoms of both Americans and the wider world. In 2010 and beyond, conservative candidates have employed a different notion of freedom, one that has absolutely nothing to do with serving the government (or military) or the public to preserve someone else’s freedoms. All of these are essentially conservative arguments; they are all in t…

Palin on Syria: Let “Allah” Sort it Out

By Garibaldi

…ment was nothing more than a play on a famous phrase (originating from Crusader Arnaud Amalric’s sacking of Beziers), which received an update by troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan (two wars Palin supported as “God’s will”): “Kill ‘em all. Let Allah Sort ‘em Out.”…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…freedom. Seemed. Turkey became bolder, challenging the United States over Iraq, from the war to the Kurdish region, and Israel over its blockade of Gaza. Even after Netanyahu apologized for the deaths of several Turkish citizens, Erdogan dragged his feet—though business ties between the two continue to grow. It’s often that way with Turkey. Crisis on top, but dynamism within. Tensions belie the massive investments in education, which cannot but…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…ights, it would not have armed Saddam Hussein after he gassed the Kurds in Iraq; it would not still be arming the Egyptian military after its coup and murder of thousands; it would not be arming Israel without demanding that Israel end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and create a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. The U.S., finally, would not have waited until one hundred thousand Syrians were killed to begin contemplating act…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…ts, for instance, supported U.S. violations of human rights—occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, drone strikes, NSA monitoring, Guantanamo Bay, Jim Crow incarceration patterns, immigration walls and deportations, and so on, and so on. That would be a “sacrifice” truly in solidarity with Palestinians, some of whom live on roughly $2/day. But I doubt that the members would support, and the National Council clearly did not suggest, any such a resolut…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…own social milieu to part with cloak and coin for the benefit of the dazed Iraq war vet with two pit bulls at the highway underpass down the road from church. It’s possible, then, to read the lingering significance of “Good Samaritan Jesus” for the religiously unaffiliated as a yearning for a more ethically engaged, prophetic Christianity. It does seem to be the case that some of the largest and most vibrant Christian congregations are those with…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…came more and more involved in the Republican Party, supporting the war in Iraq. Very few Jesuits espouse nonviolence either. We run 28 universities, all of whom train young people to kill through ROTC. There was a lot of pressure in the Jesuit order to stop me, and they stopped me, and I eventually I left. It is all very sad and tragic, but in many ways what happened to me was inevitable. I am still called like any other follower of Jesus to prac…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…tes: Raised on the ad hoc communalism of the Internet, disenchanted by the Iraq War, reflexively tolerant of other lifestyles, appalled by government intrusion into their private affairs and increasingly convinced that the Obama economy is rigged against them, the millennials can no longer be regarded as faithful Democrats — and a recent poll confirmed that fully half of voters between ages 18 and 29 are unwedded to either party. Obama has profoun…