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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…hem as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to half a million dead Iraqi children, Madeleine Albright admitted to the moral difficulty of the situation, but concluded, “The price is worth it.” For every Caldwell who links incidents of Muslim violence together to present a grand narrative of Islamic brutality, there is a Middle Easterner or South Asian who links Iraqi sanctions, Condoleezza Rice’s cruel “birth pangs of a new Middle East,” a…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…vil War, with people on both sides reading it. And in World War II and the Iraq War as well. They read it, as you say, as predicting this means this, or the beast is this. But prophesy, as we know, is a highly interpretative art, and the way this book lives and has lived for two thousand years is by interpretation and reinterpretation. The way this book has lived has to do with the openness of these vivid symbols for John of Patmos—like the headed…

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…, and was one of only two Republicans to vote against the 1990 invasion of Iraq. Confounding political allies and opponents alike, he also remained an outspoken opponent of abortion and the death penalty. For these and other positions, Hatfield came under relentless attack by the Republican leadership. After he cast the decisive (and lone Republican) vote against a balanced budget amendment in 1995, party leaders tried to remove him as chair of th…

Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ctivists—including the World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima and the Iraq al Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—were attracted to the jihadi message not for reasons of personal piety, but because they were lured by the image of cosmic war. They saw themselves as religious warriors. Wade Michael Page also gloried in the idea of war. The poster for his band, End Apathy, portrays a dead skinhead, lying in the street with police cars in the back…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ket capitalists, lobbyists, political leaders, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the bank bailout, while naming the refusal of party politics and the embrace of social media that makes “occupation” a much bigger ideological and practical strategy than trampling tents at Zuccotti Park or in downtown Oakland even begins to understand. And then, so not for nothing, he manages to sum it up with a catchy refrain (played, he says, some fifty times a…

Shari’ah ≠ Islamic Law: Misunderstanding the Role of Islam in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…and ask why we weren’t as concerned about the Islamic nature of the “new” Iraq and Afghanistan. Omar Ashour speculates on the reason for the mention of Shari’ah, positing that firm references to the role of Islam might have something to do with appeasing the Islamist elements of Libya’s popular revolution. To begin, a brief primer. Shari’ah is not quite Islamic law. It is, rather, “the path to the water,” the sum total of God’s revelation to huma…

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…he presciently sent a cardinal to tell George W. Bush that an invasion of Iraq would be a “defeat for humanity.” With the release of this document, the right wingers are now running for cover, claiming it is not official. “The pope didn’t say it,” just some little old Vatican group off on a left-wing bender—as if one word of this document (which is pregnant with papal quotations) could slip out of the Vatican by night without the pope’s full bles…

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…ld have been written close to 2001, but in 2007, after looming failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, a sense of distance, and desire to try to make sense of the changing world, Hamid’s book provided a window we were finally getting ready to look through. While Hamid’s work was very much based on the world of foreign politics and policy, with implications in the domestic space, other authors choose to focus on the American experience. After 9/11 we see…

Can Romney Win by Embracing his Mormon Masculinity?

By Joanna Brooks

…d back into the jobs crisis. Another came when he modestly suggested that those who vociferously support the troops should put their money where their mouths are. That’s right, everyone: freedom isn’t free. We’re all paying the tax bills for the Republican-declared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last night, it was the two LDS candidates on stage who managed to appear the most reasonable. That’s a fascinating new public image for Mormon conservatism…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…o foreground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desen…