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Intellectualized Islamophobia

By Hussein Rashid

…slim world back into Europe; with Venice adopting the architecture of the “East.” If it was not for this flow of ideas, the Enlightenment may never have come to pass. While there may be fantasies of returning to a great colonial past, the so-called “Golden Age” of Islam happened long before colonization. The attempt to “spread democracy” in the Middle East under Pres. Bush was a incoherent combination of idealism and colonist thinking. The civiliz…

Romney and the End-Times

By Sarah Posner

…chariah 13:8) and “On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south” (Zechariah 14:4). I’ve seen preaching on this by evangelicals; I’ve talked to evangelicals who believe these verses to be true, accurate, and undeniable prophecy of what will happen in Jerusalem. (N.B.: Zech…

Global Rebellion

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…n? I admire journalists’ interviews with religious activists in the Middle East and elsewhere, and I admire intellectual analyses of the crisis in modern secularism, and I appreciate political analyses of the social changes in the global world. My book is something of a cross between these three: it is based on interviews and contemporary cases, but it puts these cases in the context of larger social and political forces in this moment in global h…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…product of colonialism (do people in Asia see themselves as living in “the East”?). The notion of the Left being “anti-West,” therefore, only feeds a colonial model that in some ways points to the problem. It’s the West’s conversational hegemony that labels anything opposing it “anti-” (as if to imply “anti-civilization”). The categories are no longer useful. Persico’s “anti-West” example is Michel Foucault’s defense of the Iranian Revolution in 1…

Contraband Valentine

By Svend White

…ad little awareness of international affairs and my exposure to the Middle East was quite limited. Nonetheless, I instinctively sensed that Saudi Arabia’s claim to being an “Islamic” state was decidedly tenuous, given what I instinctively understood about my faith. Later, as I grew older and learned of the state-sanctioned religious thuggery and vigilantism of the dreaded mutawa (and the equally outrageous ban on non-Islamic religious gatherings i…

Here’s What to Read on Syria and Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

An observer of the Middle East could be forgiven for having a migraine. The region is a confusing mess of movements, loyalties, agendas, and policies; our own muddled approach is no different—either we reflect what we find, or we produce what we bring to the table, or we’re stuck on a hamster wheel. But the London Review of Books recently published two pieces that are exceptional. The first is Hugh Roberts’ essay on Egypt, The Revolution That Was…

Moses on the Mayflower: Was the Prophet a Founding Father?

By Linell Cady

…e American Story Feiler wades into the religiously charged culture wars to promote Moses and the biblical story of Exodus as the unifying narrative for American identity and values. Although he uncovers fascinating tidbits along the way, and highlights some of the often overlooked ingredients in American political life, his overall recipe doesn’t add up. The Lost Symbol Following in the mold of his earlier books, Feiler’s newest is a travelogue th…

Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s, listening to speeches at the League of Women Voters, demonstrating with Code Pink and Le Front Des Lesbiennes Radicales, and generally gathering with other women to no good end. Now, I actually was there when the original plot was hatched, funnily enough: It was back in 1973, at the Women’s Exchange tea room in Eugene, Oregon. (To the public, it was billed as a Missionary Society presentation.) We had just finished singing a song about the weav…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…ynamic Sarah Posner wrote about here. I’ve often noted that Romney doesn’t code traditional “tough-guy” masculine, which I believe is attributable to Mormon culture. 5. Religiosity subsumes ethics. Despite last-minute revelations of marital infidelity that could have impacted religiously-identified voters, Gingrich soared. That too is a curious South Carolina outcome that begs for clarification. I’ll be talking about “God and Politics” Tuesday at…

Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

…e of the Muslim faith mirrors that of many Americans. “Islam” has become a code word for terrorism. In fact, it is the name of a monotheistic faith tradition based on the Qur’an which is practiced by more than 1.6 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world. Its practitioners are referred to as Muslims. So our popular pedagogy must begin in order to right the wrongs of misinformation and demagoguery. Just as Christianity and Judaism have many ex…