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Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…n 1971, as West Pakistan violently cracked down on Bengali nationalists in East Pakistan clamoring for independence, Washington, D.C. remained silent. U.S. Consul General in Dhaka Archer Blood repeatedly urged President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to intervene. Nixon and Kissinger, as Gary Bass would later recount in The Blood Telegram, were so anti-India that they ignored what would become one of the 20th century’s forgot…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…uinto? When some Iranian leaders suggest Israel has no place in the Middle East, do they really mean Israel has a right to all of the Middle East? When they say they’re the resistance axis, do they mean they’re the compliance cartel? Or does Mr. Graham mean they’re always lying about everything, to the point of contradiction? Ladies and Gentlemen, we need to know. We need to know when we’re being lied to. Is everything Iran does simply ‘taqiyya,’…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…On December 2nd, Fr. Jason Landeza, the pastor of St. Benedict’s church in East Oakland and the chaplain to the Oakland police and fire departments, was headed to bed around 11:30PM when two fire alarms came in on his phone. Landeza drove ten minutes to the site of the fire, which had reached three alarms by the time he arrived. A warehouse in East Oakland was burning. “The thing that hit me,” he said, “is that there’s a bunch of young people ther…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…mary is now available.] Mining public documents, Schlesinger uncovered at least 69 trips Knesset members took around the world—including some to attractive destinations seemingly divorced from the turmoil of the Middle East, like the Caribbean, Barbados, and Rome—paid for by Christian Zionist organizations, and one, even, by the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. Many of the Christian Zionist organizations are hardly household names, even in th…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…licy circles in North America and Europe and by many academics invested in promoting religious freedom). It is, rather, an inescapably context-bound, polyvalent concept unfolding within divergent histories in differing political orders. This realization has led us to pose a number of crucial questions to those engaged in the promotion of religious freedom as a stable and singular human right. These questions, explored in detail in the PoRF volume…

Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story

By Joseph Laycock

…metal shows. But only hours before the black mass was to start, the Middle East pulled out. (There were rumors that influential opponents of the black mass had threatened to send fire marshals and health inspectors if the event went forward.) Finally, a rather ad-hoc version of the black mass took place at the Hong Kong lounge in Harvard Square. As Christopher Robichaud noted, the black mass fiasco points to a larger discussion about religious plu…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…dament, a wince-inducing distraction, a necessary corrective. At the very least, these stock formats for evidence gather up particulars—even the raw experience of suffering and misery so clearly at work now—and make of them details in the service of a not-yet, a “real story” that may come in military action or redemptive return. In each case, though, when it seems that the very possibility of coherence or reasoned discourse is blasted away by the…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…hat we want no more part of their decades of human rights violations, not least because the blowback affects us, too. Whatever severe mistakes the Brotherhood made in power, it was nevertheless meant to be the beginning of a long experiment, and democratic experiments rarely begin brightly. If they are allowed to begin at all. If the Egyptian military can find alternate sources of support, then fine. Let them. Good for them. They had years and yea…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ne of the few remaining staunch uncritical allies of America in the Middle East. His main talent seems to be preternatural gift at self-preservation. Also maybe some Americans will think he’s the King of Michael Jordan, and that’ll be a step in the right direction. The Bad: After a surprisingly candid interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, King Abdullah has laid all his cards on post-Arab Spring table, and managed to insult pretty much…

It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT

By Katherine Kelaidis

…after poll and study after study indicate that nowhere outside the Middle East and Africa is more homophobic than Russia. This homophobia manifests itself in everything from oppressive “propaganda” laws to unconscionable acts of mob violence. In short, the plight of LGBT people in Russia today is a human rights crisis, a crisis that has been fostered, protected and encouraged by the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church at large. An…