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Tibet is Burning: Is the Freedom Movement Entering a New Phase?

By Tsering Namgyal

…ion inside Tibet is pretty grim. And it has been bad for a long time. The “Arab Spring” has galvanized freedom movements around the world and Tibet is no exception. If things could change so fast in Egypt or in Libya, then why not Tibet? Even as China has been clearly intensifying its crackdown on religion, Tibetans are ramping up their campaign to raise awareness and bring attention to their predicament. And of course, the participation of monks…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…t on where the most violence is erupting. Yet, as much as the story may be promoted as one of hope and liberation, the hook is all about devastation. The media do not make us; no wars are started because of what can be seen on a news broadcast. We news consumers are addicts, badnewsaholics. From video games to action films and thriller novels we not only consume wars; we get high from seeing the dark side played out. The Glittering Sword is Whet J…

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

By Hussein Rashid

…ate tired stereotypes from the Rudy Valentino era of the savage, barbarous Arab/Muslim. However, there are also authors like G. Willow Wilson. She is known in the comics world for her graphic novel Cairo, her series Air, and for penning several issues of Superman. Unlike Naif al-Mutawa’s wonderful series The 99, her characters were set in fantastical worlds where their religious identification was not ambiguous, but were also not necessarily essen…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…hem seem just as perplexed, but additionally faintly alarmed.) Some of the Arabs are young, wide fellows with mighty beards and rust-colored thobes. Others are nouveaux petroleum riche, ambassadors for the Arab Gulf’s second most precious export: unfit men who passionately pursue high-end clothing as ridiculously ugly as it is expensive. Their wives are fully veiled, in black burkas that would be banned in other parts of Europe—like France. The th…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…stituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The global network was nourished in part to gain recruits to come to the Middle East battlefields where they provided a stockpile of suicide bombers willing to destroy themselves in savage attacks against ISIS’ imagined enemies. Some 30,000 young fighters came from all over the world to Syria and Iraq during the movement’s heyda…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…ters in Islam (SIS). Zainah Anwar, the coordinator of Musawah (equality in Arabic) said: Musawah is in some ways a vindication of a long and difficult struggle to find liberation within my faith and to translate into action my utter belief in a just God. This is the last frontier in the feminist movement to break the theological stranglehold of the patriarchs that prevents Muslim women from enjoying equal rights. For Sisters in Islam finding liber…

80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…outposts of the Anglican Communion—though less and less so in England, the United States, and other Western churches. A Rainbow Emerges from the Cloud of Whiteness In the West, Sentamu’s strident objections to women in the episcopate and LGBT persons pretty much anywhere in the Church as other but piteous sinners would be as profoundly alienating as it might be welcomed by Anglicans in more reliably conservative African, Asian, and Latin American…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…ategy to export their version of Islam around the world. At the same time, Arabs and South Asians began to work in Saudi Arabia in huge numbers and brought a new and more conservative understanding of Islam back to their home countries. Combine this with the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 and we have a significant percentage of the Muslim majority world experiencing this moment. – In view of these last two points, it is interesting to read the many…

Paul Crouch, Architect of Prosperity Gospel Televangelism, Dead at 79

By Sarah Posner

…“prophetic” significance, claiming that it would reach both the Jewish and Arab residents of the city. Crouch’s son Matthew, speaking from a Jersualem balcony with his father, added, “what is the message of the Gospel, if it isn’t for the Jew first?” Best known for his controversially extravagant spending, with his wife and business partner Jan, Paul Crouch survived many a media exposé. He and his wife built their network, worth hundreds of millio…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

…A rejected that measure, citing concerns that “divestment would cause irreparable harm to Jewish-Christian relations.” This was the right result. First, let’s be clear that divestment would be a purely symbolic act. It would have little economic impact, and would, instead, be about sending a strong message of moral condemnation and outrage. What is that message? That Israel should be forced to change its policies by the international community. …