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Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously

By Beatrice Marovich

…ensively on dog films such as the 1998 Mongolian State of Dogs or the 2013 Turkish Taşkafa: Stories of the Street. She also writes about controversial legal cases involving fighting dogs and the men who breed them. Her discussion of matters religious and spiritual is unsystematic, littered throughout the text in flickers and flashes. “Dogs, she says, are ‘flesh shot through with spirit,’ who live ‘so adamantly in their bodies’ that they actually ‘…

Banning the Burqa Isn’t the Answer

By Rushda Majeed

…es and in the public sector. It has had the opposite effect: an increasing number of Turkish women wear headscarves in defiance of a political system which they believe treads on religious turf. Tunisia is another example, if a less publicized one. Three years ago, its government, fearing resurgent Islamism, began going after headscarf-wearing women with particular ferocity. Many women consequently began to cover their heads as a dissenting gestur…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…m, Black chosenness has been the vocabulary for African Americans and Anglophone African populations of the Caribbean to express being viewed as full humans. But Andre, you ask, what about the Jews are the seed of Satan and Jewish world domination rhetoric? Isn’t that evidence of Black antisemitism? Rabbi Tamar Manasseh argues that Kyrie Irving and Kanye West (yes, Kanye! His momma called him Kanye, I’m calling him Kanye) have tragically become th…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uestioned if this meant all Muslims in Malaysia should also give up their iPhones and iPads. … Asked about the possibility that some Muslims will find fault with fellow Muslims who don’t support the boycott, Tawfik said Muslims are only answerable to God and not Perkasa. “All Muslims know that the first word Prophet Muhammad heard, in the name of God, was ‘Read’. “So, the only way you can be ‘less Muslim’ is if you don’t use God’s gift of the brai…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…ading evolutionary biologists took center stage; a representative from the Turkish creationist movement led by Harun Yahya was forcibly removed from the microphone. With his eye on the secularism that has engulfed Europe, Pope Benedict hopes that the roads of science can lead back to Rome. The Vatican might agree with Dan Brown in this respect more than it would like to admit. By allying with Templeton, the Church has begun (or, rather, continued)…

When Is Hosni Mubarak?

By Haroon Moghul

…Mubarak issued yet another underwhelming and entirely inexplicable speech, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan issued his own remarks. Referencing the shared universe of Muslim eschatology, Erdogan reminded Mubarak that he would one day die and have to answer to God for his actions, indicating perhaps that now was a good time to go, not only for Egypt but for Mubarak’s soul. Those words came from the elected leader of the most secular democracy in the…

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

By Tom Hogan

…should have militarily intervened to stop the slaughter. Whether it is the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians during World War I, when the U.S. was just a teenager, or the genocidal regime of Pol Pot, when we were still hung over from Vietnam, the answer is always the same: send in the troops. But then comes the second assignment, this time examining current genocides in Sudan and Chechnya. And in both cases my students keep their powder dry. In t…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…st daily in house-to-house combat. The northern portion of Syria, near the Turkish border, has been freed by Syrian Kurdish forces, and a combination of military forces is closing in on the capital city of the ISIS caliphate, Rakka. Perhaps more importantly, the ISIS troops have become demoralized in these military failures. The wages paid to its soldiers have shrunk to a fraction of what they were receiving just a year ago, and the once-steady st…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…longer seen as risqué. In this younger generation were also an increasing number of Muslim students (from Muslim family backgrounds and also from convert backgrounds) who brought Islamic Studies into closer dialogue with Religious Studies and began to question the divide between “studying religion” and “living religion.” That said, it was really non-Muslim scholars who broke open the field. I remember the thrill of buying the book Islamic Homos…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…right-wing Serbs argued that Bosnian Muslims were Ottoman leftovers; with Turkish rule long since undone, overdoing the offspring of that “interruption” was long since overdue. Choice Words From a Post-Ottoman World So I’ll be in Bosnia for the anniversary of the Srebrenican genocide. I have no idea what I’ll find or what I’ll feel. I have no idea how visiting Srebrenica, coming upon the war memorial and praying for the thousands of deceased, mi…