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Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…n the Coptic community who felt it was an attack against the Coptic Orthodox Church based in Alexandria. But critics have argued that the book is a historical piece that means to deal with religion generally, using Christianity as a base for the narrative. Zeidan himself has said in previous interviews that the text is about how all religions can and have been “manipulated for worldly gains” and how, in the name of religious injustice, hatred, and…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e powers of autonomy. A draft bylaw sent to AFP on Saturday outlaws anal sex between men and “the rubbing of body parts between women for stimulation”, and for the first time applies Islamic laws and punishments to non-Muslims. The bylaw also punishes adultery with 100 lashes of the cane. The bylaw reinforces previous sharia legislation that bans alcohol consumption, gambling, fraternising between unmarried men and women, and physical displays of…

Gay-Hating Church Burns “Idols”: A Report

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…idolatry should be demolished. “Anyone should destroy anything that stands between them and salvation,” explained Abi Phelps, and that includes the Qur’an, Catholic statuary, Orthodox icons, crosses, and those fish bumper stickers that evangelical Christians love. That’s also why the church includes no images of Jesus (who, as God, should never be depicted as a “graven image”) in its sanctuary or literature. But it’s also why church members desecr…

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ilitants. Nor did he seem to have had any real connection with, or actual experience of the war in Afghanistan. His main connection with militants, according to the FBI, was mainly through a website called “Jihad Recollections,” where he pseudonymously published articles in 2009. He sought headline-grabbing revenge through equivalency in bloody news coverage. In his video statement, he said, “For as long as you threaten our security, your people w…

Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…with that. Was this itself a certain kind of Christian witness, as when Jesus says don’t do your alms for show but secretly. Jesuit Karl Rahner used to speak of people in non-Western countries who somehow live Christ-like lives as “anonymous Christians.” Now we have explicitly Christian aid workers exercising their discipleship anonymously, rather than in the name of Christ. Should we regret this or admire it? Perhaps this is evidence of “the worl…

Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist

By John D. Carlson

…alence Obama captured was Niebuhrian in its understanding that war is an “expression of human folly”—a deeply flawed instrument that promises, at best, only relative justice. As the examples of Lincoln and Roosevelt show, war involves tragic choices and compromises. Against the ethical backdrop of Oslo, the West Point speech shows there is more than one way to be a wartime president. But it also locates Obama in good company among greats such as L…

Goy to the World: What Does Hanukkah Have to Teach Us About Living in Empire?

By Garret Keizer

…rder to preserve their traditional way of life. Just like the farmers of Lexington and Concord firing on the Redcoats, no? Not exactly. The revolt of the Maccabees was also a movement of “reactionary” Jews against the program of the Hellenizing elite, who hoped to bring their more “backward” brethren in line with the global agenda of the day. Had Thomas Friedman lived in 165 BCE, instead of saying “The world is flat,” he would have said, “The worl…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…lal writes, “has allowed the War on Terror’s global military footprint to expand exponentially—rippling out from the initial conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq to touch nearly 40 percent of the entire world.”[3] The Bush Doctrine thus remains core to U.S. war making and policies for managing populations at home and across the globe. PRA spoke with Hilal in early December about the pervasiveness of War on Terror narratives, her visit to Guantánamo,…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…to a great degree, about competing interpretations over the same set of texts. Nor is this exclusive to the region. Many Muslims I speak with are deeply, almost existentially, anguished about what they see happening in Syria and the wider region, about the tearing apart of Muslim-majority societies, the rise of groups which outdo al-Qaeda in violence, the continued victories of regressive dictatorships over nascent democracies and populist uprisi…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…k fundamentalist movements on the ground, preferring the more religiously extreme. Afghanistan has known war, occupation, starvation, extremism, and hardship, for some thirty-seven years now, and there appears to be no end in sight. Much more happened beside, but the nadir might have come with the Bush administration. Secular, democratic, modern. And violent. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq on the obviously false pretext of weapons of mass…