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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…Soon enough the novel’s main characters, years after 11/9, chasing down criminals and corruption in Baghdad, stumble on something bigger. Captured American terrorists hint that this isn’t the real world; in the real world the Arabs are fragmented, divided, and altogether backwards, while America runs the planet. More uncomfortably, these folks bring evidence from that world, which suggests they may not be making this up. So: Is it dangerous delusi…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…r all, the LDS Church is on a serious anti-porn campaign to deal with epidemic porn addiction in LDS communities. And frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if the Marriott change was spurred by a heart-to-heart conversation with someone at the Church Office Building. Among Mormons, porn is considered a very serious problem, primarily for the damage it does to the marriages and families of the porn-addicted. Anyone who wants to talk seriously about cor…

Eddie Long off the Cross in Time for Easter?

By Anthea Butler

…se, perhaps in the next few days. Reports say that mediation sessions have lasted all day into the wee hours of the morning, even until 3 am. If the mediation is completed during Holy Week, it would be a boon for Long. With no sign of the five smooth stones he was going to throw back in September to defend his name, and the congregation reeling from an investment scandal and layoffs, Long desperately wants to get off the cross of public derision a…

The Birth of Glenn Beck’s Nation

By Kelly J. Baker

…shes his decline into “extremism,” his shift in tone from conservative optimism to apocalyptic vision. David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun chides Beck and Fox News for their “paranoid and angry words,” and Media Matters charts Beck’s what it sees as his descent into madness and isolation. Much of the coverage concludes that Beck is, at best, “bonkers.” Alex Pareene of Salon.com, however, realizes that perhaps this is not “some sort of victory”; tha…

Santorum Satire Gone Wild

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s us all say: Riiight. And it’s not been thrown back at him so often, by feminists and rival Republican candidates alike, that we could all recite it in our sleep? And nobody can find that quote anywhere except on Kindt’s own blog post—a fact which prompted Dan Savage to pull the story from The Stranger? Mmkay, sure, whatever. In fairness, it looks to me like Kindt intended this as satire, but the satirical element didn’t announce itself early eno…

Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

By Joanna Brooks

…ven smuggled bombs underneath their veils. Today, Saudi women use the anonymizing quality of the veil to push back against the extreme anti-feminism that experts say has more to do with Saudi politics than it does Islamic scripture or history. Across Saudi Arabia, women are taking the keys and the cameras and making tracks on the desert. Veiled in black, they are everyone’s daughter and sister. Made powerful by YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, they…

Uganda Shelves Kill the Gays Bill—For Now

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…g up the harassment and threats against LGBT people in Uganda, as the AP reminds us: Last year a tabloid newspaper in Uganda [Rolling Stone] published the names and photos of men it alleged were gay. One cover included the words “Hang Them.” Shortly afterward, a prominent gay rights activist whose picture was published was bludgeoned to death, though authorities contend David Kato’s sexual orientation had nothing to do with the killing. Life has n…

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

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…es—provided the moral legitimacy for the struggle. Ideologists such as Abd al-Salam Farad and Ayman al-Zawahiri have written as if violent struggle—including ruthless attacks of terrorism on civilian populations—was the only form of struggle that was advocated by Islam. These assumptions have been proven wrong. The dramatic popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia, Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere in the Islamic world have demonstrated that protest…

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…p and others — and the coverage, in and of itself, is sufficient to continually portray this as a “controversy” or “rumor” or “some say…” rather than a politically-motivated, intentionally distracting, outright falsehood. More important, though, you can’t ignore religion when discussing birtherism. Because it’s a certain kind of religious literalism — one that dominates Republican religious discourse —that is the root of the right’s manufactured d…

#LDSConf Leads Twitter Trend?

By Joanna Brooks

…on Twitter last weekend? It was #ldsconf: the hashtag for the Church’s semi-annual General Conference. When I was a kid, Conference was broadcast global by satellite. Now, we get it on-line, simulcast in dozens of languages from Apache to Arabic to Tongan. And thousands worldwide follow and run their own live commentaries on blogs and Twitter. During last Sunday morning General Conference Session, LDS First Presidency member Dieter F. Uchtdorf…