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Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…saying in an email that hiring Ghori-Ahmad to analyze religious freedom in Pakistan would be the equivalent of “hiring an IRA activist to research the UK twenty years ago.” Ghori-Ahmad claimed that her treatment by the USCIRF was part of a broader “pattern of bias against Muslims” on the part of the commission. Indeed, former USCIRF commissioner Khaled Abou El Fadl, a Muslim who teaches at UCLA School of Law, told the Washington Post that “[USCIRF…

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

By Rebecca Moore

…CPCs in 2018, which included countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and Pakistan. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo placed Russia and Uzbekistan on a “Special Watch List,” rather than identifying them as CPCs. Even without the CPC designation, Russian officials could face financial consequences under the Magnitsky Act. Passed by the U.S. Congress in 2012, the act calls for sanctioning Russian officials responsible for “gross human rights viola…

Week in Religion: More Praying in Texas, First Hindu Chaplain, Modest Muslim Weightlifter

By Michael J. Altman

…uple of cows kept in the courtyard. There were also eggs from chickens that roamed the courtyard and vegetables from a small kitchen garden” inside their compound in Pakistan. And in entertainment news, Gwyneth Paltrow decided to weigh in on “Homosexuality in the Bible.”…

Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…rting African-Americans to Islam in the early part of the 20th century. In Pakistan, they are targeted by certain sectors as being heretics. This history of being a persecuted minority, but also being fairly cosmopolitan, should increase the community’s sensitivity to the way Muslims are being portrayed. Regrettably, that does not seem to be the case. About a month ago, Faheem Younous, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Youth Organization…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…ve them, President Obama has been extremely reticent to commit substantial numbers of ground troops to wars that have no clear exit strategy. He can however get away with this because he’s worked hard to build alliances and partnerships with other countries who bear some of the burden, put their own troops into the fight, and help us in the common war against ISIS. Many of these partners are Muslim, if they do not explicitly consider themselves Is…

Martyr of the Hijab: Marwa Sherbini, a Walking Veil?

By Shabana Mir

…plain sight of law enforcement and in the spaces of law and justice? As a Pakistani in the US, I am shocked and terrified by the recent bomb blasts in Pakistani cities. I am shaken to the core by the seeming frailty of law enforcement before armed militants. I protest and register my shock. My sympathies lie with the German citizenry: this is after all an attack on their sense of security too. If one man full of hate can murder a woman in a court…

The Qawwali-Gospel, a Cross-Cultural Musical Experiment

By Hussein Rashid

…an and Tuvan music. The Dub Factory and Gaudi merge qawwali and reggae. In Pakistan, groups like Junoon give qawwali a rock make-over, demonstrating the highly flexible nature of the art form. During his life, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, perhaps the best-known qawwal in the US, worked with a wide variety of artists himself. He worked on a fusion with Gregorian Chant, with Peter Gabriel, Eddie Veder, Michael Brook, and Massive Attack. Faiz Ali Faiz, one…

Fighting Terrorism Without Drones?

By Michael Schulson

…gical and recruiting appeal of jihadists in places like Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.” The effort will be called the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resistance,” which sounds like the kind of name the U.N. would give to, say, an anti-malaria effort, or a campaign against STIs. But that’s the point. “The initiative,” reports the Times, is “based on other global funds to combat AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.” So, yes, the United States is…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…unding gender and sexuality, increasing religious diversity, and declining numbers of Christians—are disrupting the religious landscape and leading to a sense of angst among American Christians that their country is turning its back on what they believe to be its Christian heritage. Accordingly, Christian nationalist rhetoric is deeply cloaked in threat narratives, prompting efforts to retain Christianity’s hegemonic status, sometimes through viol…

If The National Prayer Breakfast Is Apolitical and Nonsectarian, Why Is It Used to Question Obama’s Faith?

By Sarah Posner

…used as a wedge — or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism — terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subject…