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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…r of the powerless. A society that lives in fear cannot be the land of the free. The film The Promise, reminds us that a hundred years ago, an American ambassador, who had no connection to the Armenian people, stood for American ideals in front of one of the world’s great powers. Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linke…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…f in the world. From 1980-1988, Iran fought a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which was backed by the Gulf Arab monarchies, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now, it is not inaccurate to claim that the Saudi Arabian-Iranian rivalry is one of the most toxic in modern Muslim history, that both regimes are in different ways profoundly odious influences on the Middle East and Muslim politics, or that their involvement of America and Russia, r…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…of this defense is that Francis was so busy getting ready for his trip to Iraq that he couldn’t read the page-and-a-half document, so he approved it on the fly. I travel a lot, so I know the rigors of packing. I imagine him looking for that favorite pair of black socks just when the CDF rep stops by his room with the document and a pen. He’s so fixated on finding a mate for the one black sock that in a fit of distraction he says yes. The sock did…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

…e body count from America alone is far greater. Think about the victims in Iraq. Think about crimes during the Vietnam War. Think about torture under the Bush administration. Think about complaints raised about American crimes in Afghanistan, including drone attacks, the specific subject of her question! It was none other than Martin Luther King Jr. who called America, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Of course, he was also…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ty in London, on legal approaches to resolving conflicts between religious freedom and freedom from discrimination Lorenzo Zucca, Professor of Law and Philosophy at King’s College London, on the use of conscientious objection claims by opponents of LGBTI rights Michaël Vermeulen, a Buddhist inspired philosopher who studies philosophy, medicine and religious sciences at the University of Leuven in Belgium, on common myths at the center of debates a…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…ave left many Muslim-majority countries devastated. The destabilization of Iraq and Syria (which has resulted in over one million refugees), the Saudi invasion of Yemen using weapons acquired from the U.S., and her uncritical view of the Israeli occupation of Palestine (especially when compared to Bernie Sanders’) are a few examples. Some point to the moment in which she reacted to Libyan leader Qaddafi’s extremely gruesome death by giddily exclai…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…ons. In August of 2014, thousands of Yezidis were murdered in northwestern Iraq by ISIL militants, who accused them of practicing Satan worship. Buddhist militants in Myanmar have justified the burning of mosques by portraying the Muslim Rohingya minority as particularly violent. Although it’s difficult to imagine the pagan Viking as a vulnerable minority, the characterization of them as the embodiment of rapacious savagery reveals much about the…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…on last week, Aziz accuses Harris of hypocrisy, cowardice, and suppressing free speech. Then he implies that Harris is a white supremacist. Aziz is not the first to accuse Harris of ideological extremism. But the term white supremacy, even applied indirectly, is a heavy one. We have criticized Harris before for his sketchy thought experiments and dubious rhetorical support of Western military power. At least in his public intellectual persona, he…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ow that Texas thing works, who those oil folks are and what they wanted in Iraq. I’m a born-again Christian too, but the longer I live, the more afraid I get of some of these religious groups that have so much influence on the Republicans and want to tell us how to live our lives. Haggard also took up for Obama in 2012: I don’t think it makes much difference who the president is. I think there was a big ball rolling before he came into the picture…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…Versions of this argument have been made before. During the selling of the Iraq War and the broader “War on Terror,” for example, both neoconservatives and radical Islamists were invested in the widespread perception of an imminent existential threat to Western civilization. Both were invested in a Clash of Civilizations scenario, and both relied on the power of the apocaplyptic vision to build support for their causes. The anthropologist Kathleen…