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Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…eeds at a monk’s pace, with long silent portions between spoken French and Arabic. It’s to Beauvois’ credit that you’ll never wish you could fast-forward; as for a monk, there is no reason to hurry. Such ordinariness is also a feature of the martyrdom he portrays. It stems from neither overzealousness nor a death wish. (May some early Christian martyrs forgive me for saying they could’ve learned from this.) The monks aren’t living in harm’s way si…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…good will with purposeful misinformation. I fully respect the right of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism to say who qualifies as a Conservative Jew or as clergy in their affiliated congregations. There’s nothing objectionable about either of these concerns if the USCJ likewise would frown upon an Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, or Humanistic (did I leave anyone out) ordained rabbi from also serving in the same capacity as…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…e’s not going to take (the Imam’s recitation of Qur’an) anymore. See also: Arab Spring, spillover of. Eid: ‘Die’ spelled backwards, because that’s how you feel when you stuff your face early in the AM after doing the very opposite for 29 or 30 days; also, a holiday celebrated across the Muslim world at the conclusion of Ramadan (and another one, concluding the Hajj, some seventy days apart. Did you think of 72 virgins? Good for you.) Because it co…

Updated: A Response to President Obama’s Speech in Cairo

By Hussein Rashid

…the points I hoped he would. He began with the traditional greeting of the Arab and Muslim worlds, as-salam alaykum (peace be upon you). He then talked about the importance of Al-Azhar University, the problem of settlements, Sunni-Shi’ah conflict, interfaith history, the history of Muslims in America, and rule of tyrany under the guise of democracy. Of course, he touched on much more and in much more depth. It is worth looking at the content of hi…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…fluenced by once-fashionable Marxist ideologies that moved in parts of the Arab world. Though the Marxist option is dead as a political paradigm, suggestive remnants of the philosophy and its opiate theories still do their work to some degree. My atheist kin remain, in my view, hamstrung by carefully-worded tautologies of old Soviet vintage that once tried to promote national atheism through argument-manufacturing—not to mention demolition, near g…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…neffable, so no language will suffice. Starting with the gender-neutral in Arabic “whoever”; then, we get the gender inclusive: “male or female”; then we revert to the male, but in this case it is clearly the generic, “believer,” because finally, we get plural, as in “all such” will be rewarded. The struggle to make this gender-inclusive while still concise in language tells me a lot about Qur’anic logic and guidance, but that deserves a whole dif…

From Cairo to the Bible Belt: What US Christianity Must Face for Peace in the Middle East

By Anthea Butler

…merica and Israel together waiting for Armageddon to occur at the hands of Arab countries. Rather, President Obama’s deft maneuvering between his father’s Islamic beliefs and roots, his Christianity, the Maronite and Coptic communities, Jews, Sunnis, and Shias represents not only a desire to bring together parts of the Middle East, but to bring together these groups in America as well. A case could be made that this was not only a speech to diffus…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…nd a Palestinian flag wrapped around his neck. “This was given to me by an Arab,” he later explains. Thousands of miles away an American émigré from Brooklyn takes the train to Sderot from his apartment outside of Jerusalem. He wants to see what is happening in Gaza for himself, so he climbs a hill on the northwest side of the city, overlooking Beit Hanoun and further south, Gaza City with its 500,000 Palestinian residents. The buildings look smal…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…entative of my life, but I don’t complain they are not Americans. I am not Arab, but I am Shi’ah, but a different Shi’ah than the ones on the show. I love it. They are my neighbors and friends, because we all have similar stories. I don’t want them to represent me, I want them to represent themselves, and we can talk about the diversity in the American Muslim community. What many of these criticizers, not critics, fail to realize is that actions h…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…in a segregated camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the pres…