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The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ch of the Western world, I’ve watched the coverage of the uprisings in the Arab world with a mixture of awe and trepidation. Despite lingering questions about Egypt’s leadership, our hearts go out to common people around the world who assert that self-governance is a basic human right—particularly when they do so in a peaceful manner. The people have discovered the ability to see beyond the horizons of their present reality, and have taken a stand…

Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…estern Iraq a ground war is one that would favor their side.* If the Sunni Arabs in those parts of Syria and Iraq were to turn against ISIS, however, their game would be over. Their support would fall like a house of cards. The Sunni Arabs in Iraq were once before lured away from the extremism of al Qaeda in Iraq (the precursor of ISIS) when they were empowered by the American-supported Iraqi government. If the government today in Iraq—and in Syri…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…will see here,” he whispered, “is the earliest Latin manuscript to contain Arabic words. The earliest proof of the transmission of Arabic science to the West. Now I will order the manuscript.” He filled out a form and took it to another desk. Ten minutes later, the manuscript arrived from the vault. It was a rather thin little book, with a newish leather binding. The parchment was off-white with brown letters, undistinguished. He turned the pag…

What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy

By David Krueger

…e Pyramid gleam in the sun and moonlight. He also cites another example of Arab mismanagement of the pyramid stating that after the “Moslem Arabs” invaded Egypt, they further vandalized the “architectural wonder” when they “blindly cut into the pyramid hoping to find buried treasure in it.” Hoeh goes on challenge the scholarly consensus about the identity of the known builder of the pyramid, the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (or as he’s known in the Gree…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…on. Considering how sensitive the sectarian environment has become in the Arab world, that’s an understandable decision. But how are these differences in interpretation, controversial episodes, and disputed legacies going to be affected by the pop culture serialization of history? Ultimately, Omar is religious entertainment, a sign that at the end of the day we all like stories—especially after we’ve eaten too much and it’s too much of a jihad t…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…“let’s have slavery.” No one is putting it forward as a sensible idea. The Arab uprisings came through Twitter, Facebook, and the internet. So if you put in all that, you should be able to estimate the future. I look at patterns and waves. I looked inside myself to work out why I was transvestite and what was going on. I didn’t come to any conclusions but I dumped guilt and shame. How to you reconcile believing in human goodness in this time of ge…

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

By Sarah Posner

…from a Mormon script. Daniel C. Peterson, professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, editor in chief of the BYU Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and author of the book Abraham Divided: An LDS Perspective on the Middle East, said in an interview that growing up as a Mormon in California in the 1960s, most Latter-Day Saints were “very militantly pro-Israeli.” That stance…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…d on our “Religion Is Not Done with You” episode, we also know that Muslim-coded people don’t get to opt out of Islam: “Arab-looking” folks, folks with “Muslim-sounding” names, Sikhs in turbans, folks who dress in “Muslim garb,” all get read as Muslim. Identifying as atheist doesn’t get anyone who can be read as Muslim out of “totally random” TSA pat downs. This is how we racialize Islam, distilling a billion-person millenium-old global religion i…

I’d Rather Go Back to Yemen than Face NYPD

By Hussein Rashid

…Take this passage on page 10, for example: [W]here the NYPD was spying in Arab neighborhoods with sizeable populations of Syrian Jews and Egyptian Christians, the intelligence unit explicitly focused on the Muslim populations. The surveillance was going on at a time when a (non-Muslim) Syrian community in Brooklyn was being investigated by the FBI for ties to organ trafficking and political corruption, yet the NYPD was not involved. When Muslims…

Jihad Chai Latte

By Haroon Moghul

…reference to “suicide vests,” as if by making the Tea Party seem Muslim or Arab, they are therefore easier to disparage. Don’t pin this on Muslims, however subtle you think you are being. The effect of such words is greater than you think. And the refusal to attend to the deeper issue is the real problem. The right thing to do is face this head on, and ask why it has come out of America today, and what it is about America today that leads people t…