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The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…i ideology—or rather the world view of cosmic war that the jihadi rhetoric promoted—is a different matter. This view of the world as a tangle of sacred warfare has been an exciting and alluring image among a large number of mostly young and largely male Muslims around the world for over a decade. It is an image that was brought to dramatic attention by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and stimulated by the perception that US military actions in Afg…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…ims are demographic majorities—including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Comments during this meeting in Cairo showed that there are many in Europe who choose to ignore that—and they do so at their own peril. The second, and perhaps most important problem considering the new openness spreading across the Arab world, is that the West tends to act before it listens. This is a new day, in a new world, and it’s not entirely clear that Wes…

Mourning a Goddess: Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

By Susan Henking

…course, about much more than AIDS and gay rights. She stood up against the Iraq war, for example. In this she reminded us all of the relation between war and much else we need to fix about the world in which we live. And, of course, Elizabeth Taylor took with good humor the many drag versions of “Liz” that stood up alongside Carol Channing and Ethel Merman and Judy Garland and Liza Minneli — and later Celine Dion and others, in shows across the na…

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

By Sarah Posner

…in Arabic, on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that then rolled through Samarra, Iraq.) The piece focuses on the high rate of evangelicals in the armed forces, particularly in its chaplaincy and officer corps. Among the feeder groups for the phenomenon is the 15,000-member Officers’ Christian Fellowship, whose executive director described the “global war on terror” as “a spiritual battle of the highest magnitude,” meaning a battle of Jesus’ godly follow…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…es of Western support for their oppressors, by images from Afghanistan and Iraq, by constant betrayals, to mistrust the US and the West. These masses are now demanding and gaining the political space to express themselves. They will hardly speak kindly of US and Western policy of the past fifty years. Yet they have a choice before them. The choice is to either pursue their interests through rival realpolitik ideological positions or to pursue ju…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…e very clearly that we are on the side of the people and to let that gesture manifest itself in concrete policy. Didn’t President Obama go to Cairo in 2009 for just this reason? The line that received the loudest applause wasn’t about Islam or Palestine or Iraq. It was about democracy. When President Obama struggled to determine from which city he should deliver his address to the world’s many Muslims, he chose Cairo. Here’s another chance for a n…

What Was Your Sign?, Pro-War MLK, & Benched for a Headscarf

By Michael J. Altman

…King, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, would approve of the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Locals in Louisiana are arming themselves and coming up with a “security plan” to protect their churches, synagogues, and mosques. An event titled “The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks” will be held at the Conservative Political Action Conference next month. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will no longer be the fund raising face or spokes…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…his growing alienation from the Left as a supporter of the US invasion of Iraq. He borrows a line from Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, in which West’s guide and lover Constantine reflects on his political loyalties: “For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.” Perhaps there is peace in opposition to power because one’s pe…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…tient American Jew no doubt can see for themselves, this is done all while promoting a mythical — and deceptive — vision of Israel as the Middle East’s only democracy and the land of milk and honey, and playing the victim card whenever any criticism is leveled at it. From the piece: Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many…

Rep. Pelosi, Can I Tweet You Some Lewd Photos?

By Sarah Sentilles

…an abomination. Those with the power to name what counts as a crime rarely end up in jail. So here’s my proposal, Ms. Pelosi: If I tweet you the photographs taken by American soldiers of the torture that took place at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, will you call for a House ethics committee to investigate those who authorized that torture? I’m also more than happy to tweet you the link to the torture memos in case you need to read those again to make…