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Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…reflexively defends the Israeli government’s policies, but it is actively promoting the idea that the conflict there is not over land or politics, but is a clash of civilizations and religions. “Freedom” is not about human rights for all; it’s about Christianity ascendant. At the Freedom Federation Summit in Lynchburg, Virginia, last month, an entire session was devoted to “Israel, the Middle East, and Military Readiness.” (The event as a whole w…

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

By Ryann Croken

…ity. In his defense, Barks has amassed a dedicated following in the Middle East, and despite accusations of cultural insensitivity, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tehran for his success in making Rumi a hit in places across the United States where many feared that Barack Obama might be a secret Arab-Muslim. What strikes me most about the criticisms against Barks is that they generally accuse him of giving Rumi too frie…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…rts of Israel in a futile effort to appease Israel’s enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations, and, sadly, that even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last.” In 1938, Czechoslova…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…a post-Civil War influx of Confederates to Brazil to crusades against the beast of communism to the emergence of a new beast in need of conversion: Muslims. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Tell us about this network of missionaries, which, as I understand it, sort of flows from the US into Latin America and out across the world? Brazil at first received a few missionaries. There were some Presbyterians from the American Boar…

Rabbi Lerner is Wrong on Rahm

By Hussein Rashid

…record indicates that he is a realist when it comes to peace in the Middle East. While I may not agree with all his policies, he does not appear to be a hyper-partisan regarding Israel. Just as important, Dr. Cole highlights the fact that Rep. Emanuel is not in a policy-making position: he’s an enforcer. He may have the President’s ear, but Middle East policy will be driven by other people. MJ Rosenberg at TPM Café gives more detailed background o…

The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

By Amy Fallas

…those in need. During World War I, American missionaries across the Middle East were key protagonists in forming the Near East Relief, which administered aid to millions displaced by war and conflict. Into the mid-twentieth century, missionaries and faith-based organizations were at the forefront of addressing global refugee crises following World War II and subsequent civil conflicts such as the migration from the Horn of Africa in the 1990s. The…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…litical order, such as Shimon Peres’ now nostalgic vision of a “new Middle East” or a jihadist’s vision of a purified umma. Even clocking in at 500 pages, Landes’ book is only half a volume, for it consciously does not deal with the best-known forms of millennialism: Christian and Jewish ones. This is like writing about soft drinks without mentioning Coca Cola. Yet the dozen cases Landes studies in depth, ranging from the 1856 Xhosa Cattle-Slaying…

Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…inously rearing its seven heads and ten horns. Finally, a servant of this beast will arrive on the stage, a “false prophet” (16:13)—the Antichrist—who will lead his international satanic army against the forces of God. All these satanic forces will be gathered together “at the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon” (16:16). Abruptly, a white horse bearing a divine warrior will appear from heaven, a warrior described as “The Word of God” (19:13), whom…

Only The Good Die Young: The Moral Universe of Game of Thrones

By George Schmidt

…are clearly stabilized in orcs, goblins, and the dark-skinned “Men of the East.” Written partly during World War II, The Lord of the Rings predicts the logic of the Cold War, which was designed to maintain stability by simplifying complex relations in terms of ideal oppositions like East/West, communism/capitalism, evil/good, faithless/faithful, etc. This logic frames the world in terms of a strict idealism (ideal in the political sense), where w…

Claude, Adieu: A Farewell to Lévi-Strauss

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ion of Islam. “Islam,” he professes in mantic fashion, “is the West of the East.” And then, still more surprisingly, he notes that Napoleon was nothing more than a failed Muhammad. It is a difficult aphorism to comprehend, apart from the obvious reminder that comparative imperialisms get us nowhere very interesting. What Lévi-Strauss seems to have had in mind (a mind he playfully tells us was “neolithic” in its proclivities) as his restless energi…