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Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…ology of reading was initially developed in the Reformation, but much more significantly developed in America in the 1920s.) Wood doesn’t use Islamic (or even sociological) tools to judge how Islamic the ‘Islamic State’ is, rather, he uses American Protestant ones to judge their authenticity, thereby ignoring the very real ongoing process that many Muslims are currently engaging in of delegitimizing the ‘Islamic State.’ In Wood’s judgement it does…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…en was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adjustment to the modern world has proved faltering and agonized enough to produce a metastasizing strain of violent anti-Western jihadist beliefs to which Mateen — like the San Bernardino shooters — was apparently susceptible. Th…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…g religious extremism, Obama noted that that Islamic State’s “slaughter of Egyptian Christians in Libya has shocked the world.” Notice, in Walker’s speech, the juxtaposition of the statement that Obama “seems to scoff at the belief that our country has been uniquely blessed by God” (i.e., he’s not a Christian) with his own remembrance of the murdered Egyptian Christians “who clearly died for their faith and their beliefs.” Some of the floor statem…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…al territory, it remains under a crippling blockade. And don’t forget that Egypt’s dictator, Sisi, has closed his side of the border too, essentially trapping well over a million people. No people in the world would tolerate living like that. (We Americans most certainly wouldn’t.) Is this what would become of the West Bank, too—a nominally self-governing state with no control of its borders, at the whims of Israel and Jordan? So with two-states d…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…s of governance are fraught with high political risk, as in ex-Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq. Moreover, most of these radical groups, including the “Islamic State,” have a record of cynical gangsterism, routinely taking hostages and terrorizing targets for ransom. Many of their recruits are ex-cons and social dropouts. In the diasporas of Europe and North America, the seeming romance of radical ideological causes can appeal to those who are disencha…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…although it did not compel, or even solicit, conversions—those happened in significant numbers many centuries after the original Muslim conquerors had disappeared), and naturally it was not a liberal or secular democracy. But it also brought together peoples who’d never had a common worldview, or shared humanity, before. Muhammad was not like Jesus, born into a society with a powerful government. He was born into a place with no unifying governmen…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…Christian suffering and murder was highlighted. Persons from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and China—all areas where Christians are persecuted—were represented. During the second station of the Via Crucis, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister for minorities, martyred in 2011 by a group of armed men, was remembered, and later, the injustice of the death penalty around the world. I must admit, I have always liked Holy Week. It is a moment to reflec…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…questions can be both/and, not either/or. A perennial example of this kind of question: Are we still a puritanical culture, or are we now an unapologetically hedonistic culture—one quite happy to prefer the fleshpots of Egypt to the manna of righteous wilderness wandering? Both things are true, of course, and the really interesting story is how both can be true and how puritanical values and fleshly behaviors are intimately related….

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…families.” To observers at both ideological poles, this resolution is most significant for what it does not say. A majority of Council members rejected a reference to the “various forms of the family”—favored by Western European states, the U.S., and South Africa, among others—in favor of the family. The Council also rejected an amendment, introduced by Norway, observing that the primary concern of international law is the rights of individuals, n…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ce finally did pass in 2014, opponents’ only recourse was to gather enough signatures to repeal it by public vote. It was a task that Ellison and his church embraced with gusto. Ellison wasn’t alone. James River Church and its pastor John Lindell, for starters, were heavily involved in the effort to repeal. As with Christian Ministries Church, James River Church is not within the Springfield City Limits. Calvin Morrow, the head of a group called C…