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The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…han, the father of U. S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan opened his remarks by introducing himself and his wife as “patriotic American Muslims” with “undivided loyalty” to the United States. “If it were up to Donald Trump” said Khan, his son “would never have even been able to be in America.” “Donald Trump…smears the character of Muslims…disrespects other minorities…He vows to build walls and ban us from this c…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…nue. A sister-in-law and a brother-in-law were both serving abroad, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. They both lived in the area, and I had to figure out what it would mean if they were killed in action, and I had to attend a funeral picketed by my research subjects. Thankfully, that didn’t happen. But something else did that thrust WBC into my personal life. They threatened to picket a mass shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pen…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…. While al-Qaeda and ISIS vie for control of fanatical forces in Syria and Iraq, across the world we can also see significant pushback within Islam against Wahhabism and Salafism and against all forms criminality committed under cover of piety. Reza Aslan speaks credibly of this as an Islamic Reformation moment. 4. Contested faith, second instance. Let’s not forget Pope Francis’s continuing emphasis on forgiveness & restoration. Yes, I know: these…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…th a recognition that the love of the AR-15 style weapon isn’t just about “freedom” or Second Amendment absolutism. It’s also about Christian Nationalism. Daniel Defense had, on May 16th, posted a now-deleted Tweet advertising the same kind of gun the Uvalde shooter had purchased: https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1530243294868930560 The line used is Proverbs 22:6, and this phenomenon, the use of Biblical passages to sell firearms with an e…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…; the Gaza Strip remains under siege; the West Bank is even more occupied; Iraq teeters on the edge of anarchy; and Turkey has fallen under an authoritarian shadow. There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay. Should Trump and Putin translate their public flirtation into geopolicy, many more will die. Trump may very wel…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…gle act of terror in the United States, nor have there been any Iranian or Iraqi terrorists. Donald Trump’s list of banned nations is comprised of nothing more than the most vulnerable of Muslim countries, six of whom we’ve bombed or used in proxy wars. Like all bullies, he has found a soft and weak target to point his finger at. Some may take heart that his order only focuses on a small number of countries, but if his authoritarian tendencies rem…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…n,” violating core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The federal lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by the ACLU in conjunction with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and Jewish international refugee resettlement organization HIAS, marks a new development in the ongoing legal battle over the president’s January 27 order. “The executive order violates two of our most cherished constitutional pr…

Still from the set of “The Exorcist: Believer" shows six people surrounding a bound, possessed girl all attempting to exorcise the demon.

Ecumenical ‘Exorcist’ Sequel Reflects Profound Cultural Changes Since the Catholic Original

By Joseph Laycock

…why it’s virtually a requirement that exorcism movies open with a scene in Iraq, Africa, or some place where Westerners imagine there’s a more direct connection to the spirit world. This idea can be found in theologian Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy (1917). Like Green’s film, Otto suggested there was some shared phenomenological reality buried behind the doctrines of different religions and that it could still be encountered “in remote corners…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…to where they were with Bush spreading the bald-faced lies to get us into Iraq, with the same intensity…I’m so sick of these people that want to send your sons and daughters on these foreign battlefields immediately to die.” “Neocons are salivating,” lamented MAGA pundit Mike Cernovich, who railed against Christian Zionists as “useful idiots for neocons and defense contractors” and lamented that “people like me are stuck in the middle of anti-Ame…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…d in the American reaction to 9/11, and especially in our 2003 invasion of Iraq, a war in which Christian supremacist rhetoric—including the infamous “crusade” comment made by President George W. Bush less than a week after 9/11—became part of our foreign policy framing. In Europe, the Templars became a symbol of renewed far-right imagery after Anders Breivik invoked them and claimed membership in his manifesto connected to the 2011 bombing and ma…