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Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…s themselves who are struggling to redefine their religious identities in the European context. Caldwell has the right subject in mind: Europe is undergoing a cultural and political evolution. Islam and Muslims, however, are a catalyst—not the cause. Pitching a fixed Europe against a fixed Islam is playing the game of fundamentalists who use exactly the same discourse. Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, after all, is structured around…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…elieve that radical extremists are lurking everywhere just waiting for an excuse to promote violence. To suggest that deadly protest over these images can be rekindled by a book that attempts to explain the whole affair in academic prose is an insult to the vast majority of Muslims, especially those in the United States. Reaction by Muslims to visual images of the prophet Muhammad is not uniform, nor has it ever been. Predicting how Muslims will r…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…et are doing much better than we are. This may then make for new alliances between the Next Islamists and the West (so long as the West can break out of the thick teleology that demands we see the Muslim world as backwards and hostile.) But if America ignores options for trade and commerce in place of suspicion and hectoring, we empower Russia, China, and our own slow obsolescence. For China and Russia could become sources of anxiety for the Next…

Just War Tradition v. David Brooks on 9/11 Trials

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ued that the symbolics of the move carry real policy consequences. Brooks expressed surprise and dismay that the US Attorney General referred to the 9/11 attacks repeatedly as “crimes.” No, Brooks countered, they were not “crimes,” they were “acts of war,” and we ought never forget that. Brooks is correct about the significance of the nomenclature, the categories we use to describe events. But I think he flubs the conclusion. Eric Holder’s languag…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…the religion-and-culture divisions of well-established Washington groups. Examples here include Come Let Us Reason Together, a religious messaging project of the explicitly moderate Third Way think tank; also the Center for Faith in Public Life, which was launched by the Center for American Progress ostensibly to amplify a progressive religious voice, but which has since lurched sharply in the direction of amplifying a moderate and now White House…

Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…ian Conscience,” drafted and signed by Catholics, evangelicals, and Orthodox Christians, an “ecumenism” celebrated by its promoters as evidence of its far-reaching appeal. The document targets reproductive freedom (enemy of the “sanctity of life”) and LGBTQ equality (enemy of the “dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife”) as foes of Christians’ religious freedom. It’s a new document but an old canard. And it’s proof that the…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ing of anthropologists by the American military to help with understanding Afghanistan, for example, seems to assume that understanding difference can provide a road to a renewed progressive politics. But anthropology is not just about translating other cultures. It is also about understanding what Asad calls “the modern secular condition we all inhabit.” The sameness is as important as the difference. Asad and Mahmood each show us a different sam…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…s less as a welcome reminder of his true self than as nagging. Through a mix of personal moxie and unbelievable luck, Roose had quite the semester. For spring break, he joined a busload of Liberty students on a missionary vacation, “witnessing” to their godless peers at Daytona Beach, Florida. He held his own in Bible studies and received counseling for his masturbation habit. And, on behalf of the school newspaper, he landed a rare one-on-one int…

The Dalai Lama and Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…rica. He was walking the talk of compassion. He clearly knew from his own experience that Muslims are not evil by definition. In fact, I recall Patel once saying that he played basketball with the Dalai Lama as he was trying to make his vision of the IFYC a reality. Patel leveraged the human experience by emphasizing his vision of a politically, socially, ethically, morally engaged youth. Emphasizing the IFYC’s raison d’être, it is incumbent for u…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…f freedom of religious practice. In France, no such complementary relation between secular and religious freedom exists. Laïcité is the kind of secularism that is anti-religion, anti-religious expression, and anti-religious identity. They are the ones that give secularism such a bad name in most parts of the world that still consider religion a part of identity. A really good book on this particular aspect is called Beyond the Politics of the Veil…