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Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…ocial movements that are working hard for progressive change in the Middle East and North Africa. In her work, anthropologist Nadine Naber explores the mutually reinforcing relationship between the move to pathologize radical politics and narratives of “saving” Muslim women and LGBTQ people. She notes that, in the case of the Middle East, “society and culture are sensationalized as horrific and must be acted upon, whereas violence enacted by the U…

The Only Thing Evangelicals Will Never Forgive Is Not Hating the “Other”

By Frank Schaeffer

…d’s love by learning to love others as oneself. Some members of the Church—East and West—did some very, very nasty things. They oppressed women, killed heretics, started wars, buggered choir boys, persecuted Jews, molested pilgrims, and aided and abetted the institution of slavery. But they usually did get one thing right: Spirituality wasn’t a matter of celebrity leaders who sprang up then faded away. Some terrible celebrity Christian leaders exi…

Claude, Adieu: A Farewell to Lévi-Strauss

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ion of Islam. “Islam,” he professes in mantic fashion, “is the West of the East.” And then, still more surprisingly, he notes that Napoleon was nothing more than a failed Muhammad. It is a difficult aphorism to comprehend, apart from the obvious reminder that comparative imperialisms get us nowhere very interesting. What Lévi-Strauss seems to have had in mind (a mind he playfully tells us was “neolithic” in its proclivities) as his restless energi…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…iers bound in ‘one struggle,’ while another caricatures a friendly embrace between a Jew and a White power activist. confederate skinhead Memes illustrating coalitional unity between Jewish and other radical Right factions. They call on other dissident Rightists, not only to welcome them into the fold, but to lend active support to Israel’s assault on Gaza. In their view, Israel is demonstrating that “ferocious kind of sovereignty,” as The Hebrew…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…h regimes are in different ways profoundly odious influences on the Middle East and Muslim politics, or that their involvement of America and Russia, respectively, in their clash of religious authoritarianisms, might contain the ingredients for the next World War. Certainly all of us should be paying close attention. But there’s no reason to become hyperbolic. This feud has lasted 38 years now, which is significantly less than 1,000 years. For one…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…nt and not as much of a reality in the U.S. as much as it is in the Middle East. Our work was a bona fide listening effort. We went into communities in Second Life that either self-identified as Muslim or were self-declared efforts to better understand Islam, and we asked people about their stories. In the end, this project was about storytelling. What people are doing is building new narratives to find ways to coexist. That said, we are not Polly…

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

By Ryann Croken

…manifest casus belli. This is the same process of mistranslating a Middle Eastern country, recall, that led us into Iraq, and this reductive demonology is both representative and routine. Islamophobia has now become a socially acceptable subcategory of anti-Semitism. Fundamentalist and terrorist have become not fringe, but mainstream definitions of what “Muslim” “means” in a frightened Western consciousness. Every day in the “news,” the 1.8 billi…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…monk superstar. Just outside the town of Florence, Arizona, 63 miles southeast of Phoenix, in the middle of the desert, stands St. Anthony’s Monastery. Though built to resemble the great monastic houses of the medieval Christian East, there’s something too clean, too luxurious about St. Anthony’s to pass muster. It’s the mother house of 18 monasteries that, until his death last December, were all more or less under the direct control of one man:…

Jewish State, Islamic State: All States are Religious

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…diplomacy, an approach that is so sorely needed in the contemporary Middle East? I think it does, and I want to suggest one way out of this impasse. Let me say up front that I will call neither for a single-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict nor will I suggest that Israel should “give up” its identity as a Jewish state. The extent to which any particular religious tradition exercises influence over the institutional apparatus of a…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mean Islam. There is also a rise in Christian fundamentalism in the Middle East.” Caribbean: Court of Justice dismisses legal challenge to countries’ gay bans The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed a case brought by Jamaican activist Maurice Tomlinson challenging laws in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago that ban homosexuals from entering the countries, reports Rob Salerno at DailyExtra: Tomlinson’s case hinged on the fact that, as a citizen…