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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…As I mentioned, my original itinerary allowed me to fly direct from SFO to Paris. This new itinerary had me stop in another U.S. city first. Think about this—after all the excitement to get started with this once-in-a-lifetime journey, to stop again in the U.S. is the worst kind of interim re-routing. I mean, am I on my way? Are we there yet? But the Charles de Gaulle airport, which is the transit spot to Jeddah—now that is really something. First…

Interview With a Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…t is used against me, and if I do not speak, it is used against me. I condemn violence against the innocent. I think what happened in Paris was horrible. Do I need to say more?…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…n respond more compassionately to situations like global terror. After the Paris attacks, a chart kept popping up on my newsfeed. It showed a circle that represented the entire world Muslim population, and three tiny small circles that represented the relative size of these different extremist groups. Reading your book, though, it struck me that that graph—as attractive as it is to me—probably wouldn’t change a lot of people’s minds if they’re Isl…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…k. Military rebuilt, tick. ISIS stopped, tick. Globalism challenged, tick. Paris climate treaty scrapped, tick. Borders strengthened, tick. Wall built, half-tick.” For evangelicals, Trump’s barbarism is a feature, not a bug, which echoes a point made recently by John Stoehr (who, incidentally, happens to have a piece on RD covering similar territory to this one). Evangelicals follow a fundamentalist worldview that reduces the world to good/evil, u…

Blue Jean Revolution

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as political, and she mused a bit nostalgically over the summer of ‘68 in Paris, which she, as a radical young idealist from Italy, had gone to see at first hand. She traveled well and widely after that summer, making life-changing visits to Moscow and to Albania, to see the work of creating a revolutionary new social order up close. The results were disappointing, to say the least. My friend was neither the first nor the last revolutionary whose…

Bulgaria and Orthodox Church Cancellation of Louvre Exhibit is Classic Authoritarian Move

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ion of Bulgarian religious artifacts set to go on display at the Louvre in Paris this June. Banov’s announcement followed objections from the Episcopal Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (the country’s highest religious body) and nationalists from Bulgaria’s ruling right-wing coalition, all of whom were concerned that the exhibition, entitled ‘Art and Culture in Bulgaria between the 16th and 18th Centuries,’ would take place in the Louvre’s wi…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…w book, Strangers in Their Own Land, based on her ethnography of Calcasieu Parish in Southern Louisiana, explores the paradox that white low-income citizens who depend on the state both hate it and love Trump. Her subjects were almost all believing Christians, mostly Southern Baptists and other evangelicals. Her account reveals the feelings of humiliation and rage behind their support of Trump, and the “ecstatic high” he provides them in his ralli…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…the masses—the same rude mobs calling for Dreyfus’ blood in the streets of Paris. How, then, to harmonize free thought with devotion to the highest moral values? Again, education was the answer—schools that taught respect for both the scientific method and the traditional virtues. Intellectual historians have well explained why Durkheim would choose to emphasize all five of the moral values Jonathan Haidt studies. And those historians can tell…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…Holland also claims seven novels to his name, several TV documentaries, a number of radio broadcasts, a play or two, and a translation of Herodotus’s Histories, all the while holding down a staff position with The Guardian. Taken as a whole, Holland’s entire oeuvre seems a colossal myth-making enterprise geared to reintroducing the West to its own formation. Taken in itself, Dominion often maddeningly, sometimes entertainingly, rambles through tw…

Selective Sympathy and the Mumbai Chabad House

By Naomi Seidman

…le far-flung family. In Zurich, one friend of the family called another in Paris, who sent me along to a cousin in London’s Golder’s Green. After I left that world, I would joke that I had traveled to Europe but seen very little, because I’d gone from Boro Park in Switzerland to Boro Park in France to Boro Park in England, surrounded everywhere by the same sort of people I’d left behind. In Eastern Europe, Jews could travel like that from town to…