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A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…we just bomb them every few years, and punish them for their desire to be free, we will have achieved a reasonable and acceptable status quo. But although I welcome the forwardness with which we are beginning to confront the ugly realities of ongoing occupation—as well as the racism and ethnocentrism that are necessarily enhanced in the course of such conflict—I don’t think we quite understand the desperate urgency of the situation. Israel’s elit…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…d and sclerotic autocrats out of the way. There can be no progress without freedom. And there can be no freedom if we are stuck believing in people, like Hirsi Ali and her ilk, who don’t believe in the kinds of analysis that leave room for debate, discussion, and growth. I know from personal experience how hard it is to fight the mentality that produces and sustains extremism. Case in point: I don’t think Hirsi Ali is deliberately misrepresenting…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…Christian suffering and murder was highlighted. Persons from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and China—all areas where Christians are persecuted—were represented. During the second station of the Via Crucis, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister for minorities, martyred in 2011 by a group of armed men, was remembered, and later, the injustice of the death penalty around the world. I must admit, I have always liked Holy Week. It is a moment to reflec…

Bright Lights, Big Bible: A Liberal, Literary Evangelical Keeps the Faith

By Liesl Schwabe

…his. During the First World War, when he was ministering British troops in Egypt, he saw German prisoners of war who were so sure that God was on their side. Obviously, the Brits thought so too. Oswald knew there were these divergent beliefs and he said that when you consider others, you should ask if you are looking with a “hard gaze,” meaning with superiority and judgment. He was always trying to cultivate a “soft gaze.” I would never say that w…

Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

…ich was improbably filled with ninjas); Indiana Jones bopped from Nepal to Egypt in search of an ancient “Jewish” artifact. And the list goes on. A Journey to No-Place Don DeLillo’s latest novel, Zero K—a book that is being hailed as an unflinching meditation on death and technology—would seem an unlikely vehicle for Orientalist fantasy. Yet Zero K pursues transcendence in the same manner as a comic-book blockbuster: by cavorting around an Eastern…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nd sometimes dangerous. Imam Nur was born in Somalia, before growing up in Egypt and Canada. In the 90s he moved to Melbourne as a high school student and became an Imam in 2001. He is now the director of Muslim LGBT outreach group Marhaba and has had several threats on his life. As he told ABC News, two men came to his door last year and threatened to kill him, after he’d appeared on the Melbourne-based LGBT radio station Joy FM. “They wanted me…

‘Jesus is my Vaccine’ Has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism

By Chance Bonar

…st as Iao struck down the chariot of Pharaoh and cut down the firstborn of Egypt, alluding to narratives from the book of Exodus. However, as Alexander Hollmann, the editor of the curse tablet, suggests, the curse is not necessarily Jewish. Greek and Roman magic often incorporated Jewish and Egyptian texts and figures that were deemed efficacious. If a deity got the job done, you could call on it. Chrysostom knew of local Christians seeking out he…

Who Would Jesus Marry?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…pparent artifact of a late second-century Christian community somewhere in Egypt, merits further study. These are among the salient facts of the discovery at this point, and scholars quickly began queuing up to weigh in on whether or not the fragment is authentic. But the more popular conversation has swirled around an issue to which King herself made clear the fragment was not able to speak: Was Jesus married? Was his wife the historically confus…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…rt. Piss Christ, ultimately, has turned into a controversial symbol of the freedom of expression and the ability of art to catalyze significant change in society. It’s of course a bit disingenuous to claim that Piss Christ is an “unwitting lightning rod” in the cultural landscape. Serrano himself has noted that the work is “meant to question the whole notion of what is acceptable and unacceptable,” and, let’s face it, anyone who deliberately subme…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…the perfect foil for the Church: a creed “without mortification or whips,” free from abstruse theology and hierarchies of priests. Enmity for the Church also led Voltaire, in 1772, to praise Islam “because it does not descend into the folly of giving God any assistants, and it has no mysteries.” This new view of Islam, particularly as expressed in Boulainvilliers’ biography, was a decisive influence on Edward Gibbon, who had already cultivated a l…