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

By Sarah Eltantawi

…ilbab which has only been disrupted by in the past few decades by confused western Muslims. The Wahhabi reform movement (to name but one historical current) has been far more influential in changing Islamic practice than a handful of western Muslims. The thoughts and actions of the wives of the Prophet are the subject of current research which is painstaking, difficult and fascinating. No one can speak with confidence about what at least some of t…

How Much is a Google?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ral quandaries they inspire. “You call them universal rights; we call them western impositions . . .” you get the idea. These days, in the desperate search for new markets, corporations seem to care less whether they are truly open markets. The cooperative rule of law is detachable from the competitive rule of the global marketplace. If it takes submitting to governmental regulation, however intrusive, to get into the local market, then so be it….

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…ntent, with other Theravada cases and also with writers and ideas from the Western tradition of political thought. Most of this had to be cut to make it a more Myanmar-focused book, but it’s all coming back in the next book, which is comparative across the Theravada tradition. (Also, I’m a bit ashamed to say that I didn’t fight hard enough to be able to keep the Myanmar language font in my bibliography. Not that it’s—yet—effectively searchable, bu…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…still at least a dignity and a courageous unreasoning certitude, which in Western Christianity have been perceptibly melted down.” Caldwell’s hatred for Islam masks his hatred of the European and Western social trends that, in his view, enshrined an amoral hedonism as the ultimate cultural value and so deprived Europe of any larger meanings. Europe has no cause to fight for, and Islam, the “courageous” and “unreasoning” force (indeed, it is coura…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…e President is given some introduction and instruction on the holy site by Western Wall rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch and Western Wall Heritage Foundation director Mordechai Eliav. After some urging, he walks slowly—solemnly?—to the wall, where he raises his right hand and presses it against the stone. We, as viewers, hear the staccato buzz of camera shutters as Trump seems to stare ahead, head unbowed, swaying backwards and forward in what looks like…

Muslim Women and Family Law

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…est is full of extremist immigrant Muslim communities whose aim is to drag western Muslim women back into the Dark Ages as soon as they establish themselves the West. Her paragraph forgets the women’s networks and progressive Muslim coalitions that work to fight the multiple oppressions and difficulties that both home-grown and immigrant Muslim women face. Western Muslim communities are similar to those in predominantly Muslim countries in that th…

No Virginia, There’s No “Clash of Civilizations”

By Anne Norton

…walk in, the neighborhoods they live in, their schools and hospitals—is a Western world that enfolds Muslims with Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists, and the rest. In our ordinary lives, most of us are at home with Muslims and Islam. What alternative title would you give the book? “There is No Clash of Civilizations.” I thought of calling it that, but the book goes beyond that into the significance of the Western debates and…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…and centers on the debate, which is only now heating up, over how to move Western societies and their governments away from their grounding in a model based on unthinking consumption and towards a more sustainable vision of social organization, and through it, foreign and economic policies. For me, far too few people have stopped to consider how profoundly the third struggle impacts the first two. And the great thing about heavy metal, or hip-hop…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…e transition from a culturally specific depiction of Jesus as white within Western Europe, to the emergence of Jesus as a “white god” occurred during the period of Native American dispossession, African enslavement, and later during the era of colonization of Africa and Asia. The transformation of ancient and medieval color symbolism into racial discrimination and prejudice didn’t require graphic depictions of the divine, as David M. Goldenberg as…

Killer Buddhists

By Joanna Piacenza

…ate. They are hermetic. They practice yoga—the kind without spandex. Their Western-identified religious leader has been described as a teddy bear. Our culture clings to this transnational re-appropriation of the Asian religion, soaking up the Buddhist sunshine. Even the New York Times article, reporting on the recent conflict, depicts a group of monks praying together, under the headline that uses “clash” and “crisis,” in contrast with a recent Ne…