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The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…orporations, market capitalists, lobbyists, political leaders, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the bank bailout, while naming the refusal of party politics and the embrace of social media that makes “occupation” a much bigger ideological and practical strategy than trampling tents at Zuccotti Park or in downtown Oakland even begins to understand. And then, so not for nothing, he manages to sum it up with a catchy refrain (played, he says, so…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…cy positions, especially his opposition to a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, run counter to the sensibilities of most Americans. Romney observers have sometimes tried to sniff out ties between fringe elements of Mormonism and his foreign policy, but to review his foreign policy is to find religion conspicuous in its absence. After all, his unapologetically exceptionalist outlook on the role of America in the twenty-first century world c…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ter New Year’s Day in 2018, a suicide attack in a market in central Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 20. The Amaq News Agency of ISIS said that the movement claimed credit. They also gave ISIS credit for attacks in Nigeria and in Egypt a few days before. Earlier in the year a group of Muslim separatists said to be associated with ISIS took over a town in Mindanao, the insurgent region of Southern Philippines, and controlled it for months in a stand-off…

Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War

By Haroon Moghul

…overwhelmed. Some fear that if the regime falls, there will be a repeat of Afghanistan, with competing militias and warlords. I think these are uninformed predictions. The beginnings of a new state might be messy, even violent, but most political transitions are. Even most Salafi fighters recognize the role of popular will alongside their desire for an Islamic state. Some may violently oppose popular rejection of their objectives, but most will li…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…y who grew up in the 1930s – 1980s in the Arab world, South Asia including Afghanistan, Indonesia, West Africa, and other parts of the Muslim majority world, or anyone who knows the social history of those places during those times, understands that the headscarf was rare, while personal piety was strong if not stronger during this time period (according again to ethnographic research, biographies, etc.) These societies were more just and stable a…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…are of his own making. President Obama tried to split the difference over Afghanistan, neither the minimalist nor the maximalist option; this Goldilocks approach to foreign policy continues on his response to President Bashar al-Assad’s most recent alleged use of chemical weapons. And in this conflict, where would President Obama have us stand? In two places at once—it is like the President is negotiating with himself while he is negotiating with…

Conservative Mag: Glenn Greenwald Hates America

By Rob Shryock

…US government loved the Blind Sheikh because of his role helping the US in Afghanistan when the CIA intervened to secure his entry into the country despite his place on the terrorist watch list.) In fact, calling Muslims “un-indicted co-conspirators” has been a frequent political weapon against Muslim-Americans, bred from a rhetoric that views not the actions of Muslims, but the associations of Muslims (however tenuous), as suspect. Which is exac…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…nstance, 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 resolution. To b…

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…t were eclipsed by economic woes, the Soviet Union’s imperial ambitions in Afghanistan, and finally by his inability to secure the release of the American hostages in Iran. Politically, Carter suffered from a pincer action in 1980: a challenge from the left in Edward Kennedy’s run for the Democratic nomination and from the right in the form of Reagan himself and various powerful interests, including the Religious Right. Did you have a specific aud…

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

By Eric C. Miller

…ndidates 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 the wheelh…