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Breivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”

By Sarah Posner

…tes terrorism or intends violence. But, as Scott Shane writes at the Times today, Breivik’s manifesto has placed attention squarely on many of the American Islamphobes he expresses admiration for, or quotes extensively from. Two, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, protest too much that their agitation is to blame, with Geller asserting, “If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists.” The idea that Europe has given in to Islam, and…

Conservative Christians v. Avatar

By C. Joshua Villines

…ure religions common to the indigenous peoples who have borne the brunt of Western imperialism over the past few centuries. Part of the genius of Avatar is reframing the conflict of imperialism away from battles among different ethnic groups; instead, all of humanity bears the collective guilt of imposing its selfish whims on an entire planet. Avatar makes the sins of commercialism and Western triumphalism into universal, human sins; and it does s…

Decomposing Humanism: Why Replace Religion?

By Austin Dacey

…as something like this phenomenon that characterized the secularization of Western Europe. The dramatic drop in regular church attendance in Europe was not accompanied by a dramatic spike in the membership of organized atheism or humanism, which remains marginal. For post-religious Europeans, the point was to not show up anywhere once a week to seek absolution, but to stay out late on Saturday nights and sleep in late on Sunday mornings. When you…

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

By Ben Lorber

…ocialist through and through.” He also wrote, however, that “in principle, Western nationalists should be indifferent maybe to Israel…It hardly matters to me if Israelis are ‘based nationalists’ in their own country (they are not). Their cousins in the West…are possibly the most effective anti-nationalist faction of any, phenomenally aggressive and very well organized.” Jews on the dissident Right, in his view, should “get your cousins,” as racial…

RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…many Palestinians made perfect sense as well given the previous history of Western colonialism and Christian crusades. Palestinians saw the Jews as an invading force that would uproot their own Arab society. Yet most Jews coming to Palestine were fleeing oppression, and simply could not understand how Palestinians would view them as agents of a Christian West that had been murdering Jews as “Christ killers” for at least 1500 years. The mutual misu…

The “Religion” Episode: Aziz Ansari and the Cultural Politics of Muslim Self-Representation

By Timothy Gutmann

…has argued that religious transgression occupies an almost sacred place in Western approaches to modern art. Transgression signals human achievement, pleasure, and vulnerability over and against conservative inhibition, inspiring an almost pietistic defense of freedom against the sensibilities of orthodox religion. In Salman Rushdie’s novel The Moor’s Last Sigh, “Step across this line” is a mantra repeated by many of the characters who need to tra…

Morality is Not Necessarily Good

By Hans-Georg Moeller

…t rigid moral language as it has been created, for instance, by mainstream Western moral philosophy. I think similar deconstructions can be performed in the mass media (late night Shows might help) or perhaps even at the fringes of politics (through ironic speech or ads, etc.). On a very general level, I’d say that Eastern philosophies can demonstrate the contingency of certain foundational notions of Western thought that hardly go questioned. I h…

Please Stop Using Islam to Critique the Abortion Ban: It Only Excuses the Very Christian, Very White Roots of Anti-Choice Movements

By Sajida Jalalzai

…ortion have historically been quite diverse and nuanced—a fact obscured by Western oversimplifications of “shari`a,” and assumptions about Muslim male chauvinism. Muslim jurists and scholars connected the issue of abortion with complex theological questions about the timeline of “ensoulment,” or the process by which they believed a fetus was transformed into a full human being. A common opinion was that a fetus only became ensouled (and therefore…

The Legacy of Bush, Gambler of Other People’s Fortunes, Is Still With Us

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…al has come almost to head the list of virtues required by a man reared in Western civilization. But the Russian is not only incapable of accumulating capital, he is also a persistent and hopeless squanderer. Nonetheless we Russians have a great use for money and so we are always very happy to come across such things as roulette….For my part, I’d rather spend my whole life like a nomad under a tent than worship the German idol. (42-43) In the nine…

The Terrorism & Poverty Myth

By Ira Chernus

…ificant sacrifice to our comfortable standard of living. Did you know that Western Europeans consume, per capita, only half of the oil we Americans consume? At least so says Diamond. His figures may be a bit off. But he is surely right that the Western Europeans live as comfortably as (more comfortably than?) we Americans on less oil. And probably on less other non-renewable stuff too. A Swedish reader comments on the piece: We can indeed cut huge…