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

By Haroon Moghul

…ational Politics at Tufts’ Fletcher School and part of Richard Holbrooke’s Afghanistan-Pakistan team, whose recent works have received significant attention. This, his most recent work, urges our reconsideration of the Muslim world by looking at its economic and social realities in another light. Both offer the gravity, subtlety, and statistics that the discussion deserves. We do not know what will become of the processes these authors point to, b…

Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…s, evangelicals, and Orthodox Christians, an “ecumenism” celebrated by its promoters as evidence of its far-reaching appeal. The document targets reproductive freedom (enemy of the “sanctity of life”) and LGBTQ equality (enemy of the “dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife”) as foes of Christians’ religious freedom. It’s a new document but an old canard. And it’s proof that the culture wars are not only not over; there hasn’…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…preneurship. Second, there was the immediate response of demonstrations in Afghanistan, with NATO bases attacked and several demonstrators killed. Third, there was the immediate, near-simultaneous invocation of worldwide violence by Muslims as a potential consequence of the act. Fourth, there was the immediate, near-simultaneous response from religious and political leaders weighing in on the effects of the act in their corner of the world. This i…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ring forms of industrial warfare still alive and none-too-well in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are also some new trends worth tracking, and Religion Dispatches was formed in large measure to enable better reflection upon them. The first has to do with the continued advances in contemporary communications technologies. RD serves a population that will continue to receive more and more of its news and information online (this trend will continue ap…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ing of anthropologists by the American military to help with understanding Afghanistan, for example, seems to assume that understanding difference can provide a road to a renewed progressive politics. But anthropology is not just about translating other cultures. It is also about understanding what Asad calls “the modern secular condition we all inhabit.” The sameness is as important as the difference. Asad and Mahmood each show us a different sam…

The Dalai Lama and Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…s to destruction. Yakoobi’s story is no less human and amazing. Working in Afghanistan, four armed men entered her offices. Dressed as fighters, she feared the worst. She asked them what they wanted, and they said they wanted an education for their daughters. This simple story reminded the audience that compassion entails being open to our common humanity. This point of commonality is one the Dalai Lama returned to, and the way he constructed kins…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…career to join the Army after Sept. 11 and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan? Remember how the Army and the government treated his family for trying to get to the truth of his death rather than accept the official false war hero narrative spun by the Bush administration? In an interview with ESPN.com, Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, who led the second investigation into Tillman’s death, said the reason for the family’s dogged pursuit of the t…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…hus before long the “War on Terror” and the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, ‘democratic,’ ‘American,’ and ‘Israeli’ were, in the lexicon of the ADL, three synonymous terms. To return to another contested lexical item, the dreaded “A (for Apartheid) Word,” Polakow-Suransky devotes the book’s epilogue to the Israel-South Africa comparison. He acknowledges that the Israel-South Africa “apartheid analogy is an imperfect one… Unlike white S…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…ng books on the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War writ large, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq and, to my knowledge, there aren’t. It has been almost seventy years and still there isn’t a good religious history of American involvement in the Second World War. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I grew up in Minnesota. Pissing people off terrifies me. I’m only slightly more comfortable with the concept of ple…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…iple offers a look at the morals at stake in the continued violence of the Afghanistan war. Two new books on anti-Semitism prove that it is still a relevant topic. And philo-Semitism is still around as well. Fundamentalists and other conservative Christians unite with conservative Jews in Zionist hopes and millennial visions. On the other end of the Jewish specturum, another bridge builder, Rabbi Peter Knobel, retires at age 67. Quince Mountain de…