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Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…anything to avoid casting aspersion on Islam, but more generally and more significantly, on religion! This insistence to regard religion as good leads to at least two consequences, both of them short-circuiting understanding of events such as those in Boston this week. Sanitation for the Nation I will guarantee that reporters and commentators will sanitize their language by systematically replacing any possible use of “religion” or “religious” wi…

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…

King and Obama—Don’t Get it Twisted

By William D. Hart

…was greatly diminished by Obama’s call during the campaign for ending the Iraq War only to escalate the Afghanistan War. In many ways, Obama is proving his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright to be a truth-teller insofar as Wright’s assertion that, “If our money is tied up in, and our merchants are heavily invested in it, then our military will back it up.” Furthermore, his war-mongering rhetoric toward Iran makes me deeply skeptical, even distrus…

A Scholar Responds to John McCain: No God But Country

By Mark Hulsether

…ristianity, such as the large majority of world Christians who opposed the Iraq war from the outset. Moreover, is not Lofton a stakeholder in her country, a citizen of the world, and a caretaker of reasonable discourse in a postmodern media culture? Victory Culture My second comment starts from connecting the dots between two issues: McCain’s stress on his suffering as a POW and Tom Engelhardt’s analysis of how POW victimology functions in US cult…

The Culture War of the Future

By Ira Chernus

…Then they can sharply influence the lives of people in faraway places like Iraq and Afghanistan, as I have argued at length. But here Steinfels is conflating two rather separate issues. There are the current, apparently fading, debates about specific issues like abortion and gay marriage. Then there is the deeper, more basic question that will trouble and sometimes divide American society for many decades to come: Is there, and should there be, an…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…year, the bishops distributed thousands of copies of a pastoral statement promoting the church’s teaching on marriage and opposing the State’s attempt to redefine it in the referendum.” Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Minister for Health, came out on Sunday, connecting his action with the country’s upcoming referendum on marriage equality. From the Irish Times: “There’s a referendum on marriage equality coming up too, and I just want to be honest with pe…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…lar, the knowledge of the early Islamic world, especially as it is used to promote proper behavior, remains in the anecdotal, atomized form, and should only be put into narrative history by those qualified to do so, the educated, religious elite. The first attempt to write a full narrative biography of Muhammad was begun toward the end of the first Islamic century and completed shortly after the centenary of Muhammad’s death (632 C.E.). The author…

A Call for Heresy

By Anouar Majid

…se of the United States. I was in a hospital setting witnessing the war in Iraq through the TV screen in my son’s room and the whole thing looked utterly depressing. It’s as if humans had gone totally mad. A tremendous amount of energy and resources, including thousands of human lives, were being wasted, like “flies to wanton boys,” for no good reason at all—unless one considers demagoguery and pecuniary interest a good motive to endanger the frag…

The Latest Suspicious Ex-Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…eally show it. I also find it odd that he was apparently raised in secular Iraq as an engineering student and decided that he was programmed with “Islam.” In the span of 23 years he has managed to become a theological scholar with a 780 chapter thesis. It almost reads like a paranoid conspiracy theory, except that someone thinks this is “humanly possible” and he is therefore a valid speaker. At the rate the ex-Muslim industry is growing, I suspect…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…grad school); in the 2000s it was massive protests against the invasion of Iraq; economic redistribution after the crash of 2008 and Occupy in 2011; Black Lives Matter in the late twenty teens; and now it’s Palestinian solidarity. And one day it will be something else. In each of these cases, there were other conflicts and atrocities that didn’t become a central focus of the Left. So why these and not others? That’s a good question, and one freque…